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Originally Posted by Riot
Yes. That tax on tanning at salons will devastate the middle class.
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I was more concerned about the $569 billion of hidden taxes such as the investment income surtax, medicate payroll taxes, and those taxes that are imposed on the health care industry which will inevitably be passed on to consumers as virtually all taxes placed on businesses end up being passed on to the consumer.
But since you wanted to attempt to declare these taxes as frivolous by using the one tax that most likely will not bother most American's, I will comment on that as well.
I am against sin taxes such as a tanning tax and find them insulting and a troublesome way that government has been imposing taxes in order to continute their spending problem. The government picks on people who most of the public won't complain about taxing, i.e. cigarette smokers, liquor, tanning, upon the lie that the government is taxing people for their own good to stop them from engaging in dangerous activities. They are easy victims which most people won't argue against taxing. Yet, if the government was so concerned about the danger of the activities or people's health, then why don't they ban them altogether?
They don't, because they know they can impose these taxes at times when people will not put up with new taxes and raise revenues without getting a complaint from the general public. Most of these taxes, cigarettes or liquor, etc., hit the poor the most. They are deceitful and they should be allowed to impose higher taxes than the product itself costs, which often occurs.