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#Obamacare's 10% tanning tax hits salon owners and customers, most of which are women: http://t.co/dJuaGAT9LE
May 14, 2013 11:01 AM
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Groups who advocated for the IRS to prepare tax returns sure look foolish these days: http://t.co/oKvpIofu7Y
May 13, 2013 06:30 PM
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"We don't need the federal government mandating additional taxes..." -@MarshaBlackburn on MFA: http://t.co/lAuLJtr5t3 #NoNetTax
May 13, 2013 06:00 PM
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Health insurers and businesses are already feeling the iron-clad grip of regulations in #Obamacare: http://t.co/J6dfnKqFYZ
May 13, 2013 05:30 PM
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Virginia Governor Bob McDonnell Signs Largest Tax Hike in Virginia History into Law http://t.co/Qd6KOFfaPv
May 13, 2013 03:46 PM
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Under #Obamacare, mothers have had a tougher time purchasing non-prescription, over-the-counter medicine: http://t.co/dJuaGAT9LE
May 13, 2013 02:01 PM
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9 out of 20 #Obamacare tax hikes have not even been implemented yet: http://t.co/opFkyf1guJ
May 13, 2013 01:30 PM
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.@GroverNorquist on MFA: "[The Senate] didn't ask all of the questions that needed to be asked": http://t.co/wXfkIR2Ca9 #NoNetTax
May 13, 2013 01:01 PM
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"When architects of #Obamacare are worried about it creating a trainwreck, you know something's gone terribly wrong": http://t.co/J6dfnKqFYZ
May 13, 2013 12:30 PM
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Conservative and Free Market Groups Applaud Move to Delay a Vote on Gina McCarthy: http://t.co/lNQYmJAB12 #EPA
May 13, 2013 12:02 PM
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Bo-Tax Replaced with Tanning Tax
An article written by Caitlin McDevitt in Monday’s Washington Post explains that Senate Democrats have decided to scrap their highly ridiculed cosmetic-surgery tax, also known as the "bo-tax." Desperate to find another revenue source that is perhaps less susceptible to mockery, Democrats have decided on a tanning "sin tax." The tanning tax is one of the seven tax hikes in the Senate healthcare bill that violate President Obama’s "firm pledge" not to raise "any form" of taxes on families making less than $250,000.
McDevitt explains that, "the Joint Committee on Taxation estimates that, under the new proposal, taxable revenue from tanning salons will remain steady or rise slightly year over year for the next decade." However, history shows that the tax hike will only decrease demand and will fail to meet revenue claims. Not to mention, with the increasing popularity of spray-on tans and the tanning salon industry already suffering, it is highly unlikely that the tax will generate the $2.7 billion that is suggested. Senate Democrats fail to realize that this new tax, like all taxes, will only drive consumers to find an alternative.
Americans for Tax Reform has repeatedly pointed out how sin taxes only decrease government revenue, and are in fact a "placeholder" for future income taxes, etc. A simple explanation as to why sin taxes are ineffective can be found here and here.
