Let the Taxes Begin
The following is from The Heartland Institute:
This month we will begin to see new taxes imposed by the new health law. The Heartland Institute’s John Nothdurft has a great piece in the American Spectator discussing the first of these taxes, the 10 percent tax on tanning salons, which went into effect July 1. This is the first of 21 new taxes imposed by Obama’s health care law, and that the tax represents a broken promise to not raise taxes on those making less than $250,000 per year. Unfortunately, the tanning tax is only the beginning. Over the next 10 years, Americans will see $500 billion in new taxes to pay for this new law. Most of these taxes hit the very people Obama vowed to protect during his campaign in 2008.
The new taxes on medical devices include everything from bandages to toothbrushes to walkers. How is health reform supposed to make health care more affordable when it included taxes that raise the cost of care? This doesn’t make sense.
Devon: have you ever heard of “Tax and spend. Tax and spend. The people are too damn dumb to understand.” I believe FDR said that.
This gives a whole new meaning to the idea of tax and spend liberalism. Tanning salons? Taxing teenagers? Have they no shame?
Don’t think about them as tanning salons, think about them for what they really are, skin cancer dispensers. The government has a legitimate interest in limiting the usage of these health hazards. And don’t bring up the one in 50,000 users fighting vitamin d problems, we all know why people use these services. By now, pretty much everyone supports the government’s role in reducing tobacco use, a role that includes both education and taxation. These skin cancer dispensers should get the same treatment.
This whole scheme will implode before it gets very far because every place that state-controlled medicine has been tried, it has collapsed under its own weight. For a preview of the endgame, it ought to be noted that they’re now performing amputations in North Korea without anesthesia:
http://apnews.myway.com/article/20100715/D9GVCNNO0.html
We should implement an additional 10% tax on shorts, t-shirts, swimsuits, especially bikinis; think of the skin exposure. This skin cancer dispenser should get the same treatment.
If people want to play outside on sunny days they should get permission and show their local health official that they have properly applied sunscreen with the right spf. We could fence off all parks and apply a tax to enter the park that could pay for the additional officials, broken arms, and sprains, which just add to the healthcare bill of this country.