The new healthcare mandate in America is slated to become law. There is one odd thing in it I don't quite understand that is reeeeally bad news for Ganguros and their American male counterparts the Guido or Jersey Shore resident. A 10% tax on using tanning salons. I myself could care less about the bill as I have insurance and am whiter then rice in a snowstorm.
It just kinda made me go "huh?"
eeeewwwww,... YOu use a tanning salon?
Why don't you just lay outside bare nekkid, its free. Use the bucks spent on "tanning" for your otaku vices instead.
That is a bit weird. I guess I sort of understand the reasoning. Tanning Salons use harmful UV rays to give a tan, therefore increasing the likelihood of skin cancer. Tanning in he sun doesn't have the same risk, and less risk = less money spent in healthcare costs. However, if they're going to increase taxes based on making unhealthy choices, shouldn't other things also increase / decrease tax contributions? IE Exercising regularly should decrease taxes, eating at McDonals every day increase taxes etc. If you're going to do something, at least see it through to it's logical conclusion, amiright?
if you're exercising - then you're actually busy exercising (not actively spending your money) so yah,.. you're not being taxed to exercise.
Till you git hit by a drunk driver, or jumped by a stalker.
Eating at Micky Dee's everyday, both negates exercising and you're spending your money on junk food, that gets taxed no matter what, (taxes on the sale, taxes on manufacturing of food stuffs, taxes on personnel who make the stuff, taxes on taxes on taxes).
You don't have to look at things to its logical conclusion. You'll only give yourself wrinkles and gray hair - prematurely.
Just exercise a little sensibility and conscientiousness, while spending like mad with your mad expenses account.
"You'll be fine"
- qouted from Toru's Mom
tingle said:
Quilt. Sauce'd.
UncommonOtaku said:
a bunch of curious stuff
I don't think you understood my point. >.> If I understood the first post correctly, the tax on tanning salons is due to an health costs. Since the gov't is thinking of giving healthcare to all, those that damage their health purposely (such as through tanning) have to pay more money to the healthcare program since they'll end up taking more out of it. My point was, if they're going to tax extra based on likely uses of the healthcare system, they should also increase taxes (increase the amount contributed to the healthcare system) from other unhealthy behaviours, such as eating too much fast food, and perhaps subsidize activities that are likely to decrease the cost of healthcare (such as making gyms cheaper/free).
RawrFear said:
(such as making gyms cheaper/free).
Oh god, wouldn't that be nice in a perfect world >_>...
Don't understand why people go to such extremes to get tans when I'm nearly killing myself to keep my skin pale. Whitening creams, sun-screen, long sleeves in summmer... OTL
Why would you pay to get skin cancer AND look like a douchebag?
gyms are free, it depends upon where you live or work.
For example, my apt comlex has a free fully equiped gym for resident use. Although I prefer to do my workouts at home because I have a bowflex XLT and I have a disdain for "Posers" always getting in my face coz they're busy stroking their egos instead of being focused on their own workouts.
Some companies have a gym on the property for use by employees, an example would be at Yahoo or Google campuses, Microsoft, and Skywalker Ranch also have a free gym for their employees.
Some folks tan, simply because its part of their culture.
Me,.. I grew up in Hawai'i, tanning is almost second nature, so I'm not really my true self if I don't catch a few rays from time to time.
In my youth, going to the beach for swimming, fishing, sailing, paragliding, hang gliding, surfing and harvesting fresh seafood from natures bounty (diving for oyster, clams, spear fishing, etc.). My dad particularly liked fishing deep water fishing on the shoreline (along craggy cliffs).
In a sense, you're not a "Kama'aina" (a local Hawai'ian resident) until you've cultivated a little bit of a tan.
True for some people that they endeavour to be as white as possible, because some folks are extremely susceptible to getting skin cancer.
However, also true, that some folks are "resistant" to getting skin cancer - simply because of the pigmentation of their own skin.
If you have the genes and your body normally produces the enzyme for your natural colouration. Getting your daily dosage for Vitamin D from the sun is essential to your good health.
Its not for everyone after all, so when in doubt consult your regular doctor and a professional Dermatologist (not some bimbo at the cosmetics counter in a department store).
o.0
so many cancer from tan salons that they need to tax that?
Fonzer said:
so many cancer from tan salons that they need to tax that?
INSTANT MEME
Skin Cancer? I'd tax that.
Mikorio said:
INSTANT MEME
Skin Cancer? I'd tax that.
Heh good one.Oh and i like how you are trying to stay pale :D,there is a certain beauty in that.
SaruDa said:
Oh god, wouldn't that be nice in a perfect world >_>...
Tell me about it <_<
* just spent $140 + tax on 6 months on a gym...*
Tanned anime characters look weird.
I guess they put on extra tax on something that people normally wouldn't use anyway. So in the end do we care?
BaltazarDZ said:
I guess they put on extra tax on something that people normally wouldn't use anyway. So in the end do we care?
It's the principle of the matter damnit. If people want to look ugly as fuck by smoking and visiting the tanning bed bi-weekly, more power to them.
Mikorio said:
Don't understand why people go to such extremes to get tans when I'm nearly killing myself to keep my skin pale. Whitening creams, sun-screen, long sleeves in summmer... OTLWhy would you pay to get skin cancer AND look like a douchebag?
I loled at irony.
skin bleaching/whitening
yes why would you pay to get skin cancer and look like a ghost douchebag xD
Vicious said:
I loled at irony.
skin bleaching/whiteningyes why would you pay to get skin cancer and look like a ghost douchebag xD
Don't know about the whitening creams, but sunscreen is just good practice. UVA rays are the primary cause of skin aging.
So are tan lines sexy or is no tan lines sexier?
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