When the new Healthcare Reform goes into effect, it appears there will be a new “tan tax” – a 10% tax for using tanning beds at tanning salons. According to the WSJ, this tax can bring in 2.7 billion over 10 years to help with healthcare costs! Awesome! Personally I think this is great, and it makes sense to me to tax stuff like cigarettes and tanning, since these have been proven to contribute to increased medical costs and health problems. Tanning salons have successfully tricked people for years into believing that tanning is safe, but last year the World Health Organization declared tanning beds do indeed cause skin cancer. The delusion is over – tanning beds are absolutely unhealthy. Sorry Snookie and the rest of the “Jersey Shore” cast. It’s a fact.
Now if only they could tax excessive outdoor tanning – that alone could probably rake in enough money to make health insurance free! Ha. I’m not completely against going out in the sun, because Vitamin D from sun exposure (or supplements) is vital to our health, but moderation is the key!
The Botax
Similar to the Tan Tax, the Botax had been proposed also, and it would have meant a 5% tax on cosmetic procedures, such as Botox and elective plastic surgery. For now, though, it appears that tax is not going to happen. This is great news for girls on “The Real Housewives of Orange County.” The main reason they need so much plastic surgery, Botox, and fillers, is because they prematurely aged their skin with excessive tanning. Maybe Lynne could have saved her house if she had only worn sunscreen, thus not needing a facelift. Just kidding. I love that show!
What do you think about the Tan Tax? I’m sure there will be a lot of opponents to it.
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March 26th, 2010 at 8:59 am
First of all…I LOVE YOUR SITE! I check it so much, especially for the list of ingredients that clog pores. I use other sites too on my mission to clear up my skin but yours has been the most helpful. Anyways, about the tan tax, probably a good idea but I don’t like the government having that kind of control and choosing what is good and bad for us based on whats the popular opinion at the time. Maybe an exception would be people who live in very dark overcast areas who don’t have the option of natural sun. Such as Alaska during the winter. Also, if you can find someone who works on a military base the shisiedo sun cream is about 30% cheaper and without tax.
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April 15th, 2010 at 3:59 pm
I think this is good too! I don’t know if it will deter anyone from going to a tanning bed place, but it will generate a lot of money to pay for healthcare, and we need all the money we can get.
April 21st, 2010 at 11:29 pm
the tanning tax is good in ways. such as raising money for other things. however everything can cause cancer. eating an apple everyday for your life can kill u and or hurt u badly. so please don’t deem just one thing bad for you. i work in a tanning salon and i want to defend it not just because its where i work but because i see more things than some. there are many people i see who have psoriasis that come in to tan. and others who use at home tanning beds. i myself have some psoriasis on my scalp. tanning is one of the few things that relieve the itchy-ness and pain of psoriasis. i know some people who only use the tanning beds because they say its the only way to relieve the symptoms. and when you go to a doctor they usually prescribe a steroid cream or something similar. but that isn’t safer than tanning in my opinion because it can make your skin more sensitive to the sun and cause such things as cancer. some people tan because it makes them happier and keeps them from being depressed. tanning has a lot of good qualities that shouldn’t be overlooked. but there should be other regulations put on tanning instead of a tax that will mostly just irritate people. the tax is mostly there to deter younger people from tanning because they go tan hopping. they go from one salon to another so that they can be darker, quicker. now i don’t see alot of girls like that but they are out there and its just stupid. and they hurt themselves and people try to sue the tanning places but they dont’ win. now there should be laws set up to help prevent people from tan hopping. that would help majorly.
April 21st, 2010 at 11:40 pm
i wrote the comment above with the same name…
if u want to discuss this more feel free to email me anytime at openideasnadvice@aol.com….please be polite and state what you wish to say nicely. i like hearing others opinions. thank you!
May 2nd, 2010 at 1:38 pm
Well, that’s interesting. As to Michelle’s point, if all the warnings about the health issues of tanning don’t make people worried enough to stop, perhaps hitting the pockets will. Money talks. In any case, thank you for posting this information and for making this a topic of conversation. I am happy to see that websites such as this one and beauty companies are trying to be more proactive about advocating healthy skin care habits. I read on The Beauty Girl, for example, that Jergens is doing a promotion with Jane Krakowski to raise money for the Skin Cancer Foundation. http://thebeautygirl.com/?p=3233 Good stuff.