One of the sneaky little bullshit items tucked into the thousands of unread pages of the new Health Care Reform Bill that was recently passed is a "tanning bed tax." The tax is a 10% excise tax levied on the use of tanning bed services. Opponents of the tax claim that this will give individuals a disincentive to patronize tanning salons, and thus put thousands of small tanning salons out of business and evaporate thousands of jobs. Perhaps this is true, but it's not the real problem.
Proponents of the excise tax suggest that it might motivate people to go outside to get some color and, in the process, become more active. This could help some people to lose weight and become healthier, thus leading to less health care bills (but not if you live in a state where we have this pesky little thing called winter.) Winter is when most people- - white people-- frequent tanning salons because the inclement weather is not conducive to getting any natural sun - duh!
Some also argue that tanning beds have been linked to skin cancer. While this is not entirely true, the cost of treating skin cancer is, nevertheless, high. So, the government states that it's going to use the estimated proceeds of this tax-- $2.7 Billion over the next ten years-- to help fund the cost of treating skin cancer patients.
This is so retarded it makes anything Nancy Pelosi says sound marginally intelligent. Look at every single business entity that the government has run - Amtrak, Medicare, Medicaid, Social Security - all bankrupt! Do you really think government run health care is going to be a reliable steward over an excise tax of 10% on tanning beds, and appropriate the proceeds over 10 years to treat melanomas? If you believe that I have a nice bridge over in Brooklyn I can sell you really cheap. Besides, anyone upwardly mobile enough to afford the luxury of a tanning bed is not availing themselves to government run health care. So, those melanomas are not going to be treated by government money. That money is going nowhere but into the same corrupt black hole as "cash for clunkers," "cash for appliances," and the rest of the doomed liberal socialist entitlement programs aimed at non-whites with Obama's name on it.
However, the travesty is not in the inevitability that not a penny of that $2.7 Billion is going to be spent on fighting skin cancer. The travesty lies in the bigotry the tax represents. Reverse bigotry actually.
Imagine, if you will, the uproar over a tax that penalizes anything used predominantly by Muslims or African Americans. Could you imagine what would happen if suddenly there were a 10% excise tax on bean pies and watermelon? Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson would be on every talk show and march on every street decrying the racism such a travesty would represent; and surely Obama would cave under the pressure and not only repeal the tax, but also offer a voucher for free bean pies and watermelons as a way of making peace to his constituents. But a service, used predominantly by whites, gets hit with a useless tax that's going to be squandered anyway, and it has the potential to put thousands of white people out of work and business (Blacks and Muslims do not own or operate tanning salons), and we're just supposed to sit here and take it! Where are the activists for the whites who are being taken advantage of here? How come no one is advocating for the white Americans who are being discriminated against with this evil bigoted tax?
This stupid fucking tax is just another glaring example of how white Catholic Americans are becoming the most downtrodden, taken advantage of, discriminated against, and under-entitled sect of society today. Name ONE government entitlement program aimed at middle class white Americans. Just one.... I'll save you some time - there aren't any! We also pay the most taxes, which pay the morons who pass the legislation to appropriate more handouts to those who don't work, don't pay taxes, and are here illegally.
When is someone going to stand up and say they've had enough?
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