The tax is racist!
How many black people use tanning salons?

So, the first federal sales tax is aimed exclusively at caucasians. What a surprise. Where's Al Sharpton's racial outrage?

i'm for the tax, it's ridiculous to tan yourself indoors, you're WHITE for a reason. that is your skin colour and you should accept it. if nature wanted you to be black, brown, or tan you would have come out a different race. there is no shame in paleness. there's also a good deal of sunshine outside for you to take advantage of in the summer. if you're tan in the winter you just look silly. i see all these bleach blonde women who tan themselves everyday and all i can think is "insecure trollop". whether or not it's a fact is debatable, but there's something about being that tan that just makes you think ill of someone for some reason. men are guilty of it too, though fewer of them tan. i see an overly tanned man and i think "obnoxious douche". but anyway, it does cause cancer and ends up costing people more money. it's just not worth it. put that tanning money towards something more productive. and with age, you will start to look like a piece of leather. my mother goes to the tanner with a women that's around 45 and she looks like chewed up leather because she's so overly tanned. more power to the tax!

This tax is RACIST and SEXIST - it targets white women, the majority of the users of tanning beds and excludes blacks who rarely if ever use tanning beds. If we were to put a tax exclusively on Black hair products you would here the screaming from the left "RACIST!!!!"... but do it to a white person and you here NOTHING....

It should be MY decision on how I treat my body. What I eat, what I drink, whether or not I tan, and what I do in my own bedroom, is nobody's business, especially not the federal government's. Attempting to legislate, regulate, and tax my behavior is downright wrong.

Since the dangers of using tanning beds have become more widely known, and I have grown up (now 32, been using tanning beds since I was 17 or even younger on occasion), I now use the new "spray tan" non-uv formula. But now, when I buy my "tanning package" at the salon, and I ONLY use it on the safe non-un "spray tan," I am being hit with the tax too. Now THAT just doesn't make sense. It is a purely cosmetic tax in my case. Unless the tax is truly targeting traditional tanning beds (which obviously it is not in my case), it is targeting cosmetics in general, and I believe to tax cosmetics at a higher bracket than other goods and services could be found unconstitutional.

I'm fair skinned so I tan a few months before going to the beach. No matter what sunblock, I get burned easily and badly by the sun's rays if I don't get a base tan. Tanning is already expensive- prices climb every year- and it'll hurt the wallet even more with this tax. It'll probably cut the amount of consumers tanning- except for the die-hard or those who can afford the additional 10%. I understand the concern of overusing the facility, resulting in greater risk of cancer. But even with exposure of the sun's rays, the risk is still there. If the concern is for the young people, put an age limit on it. Adults should be able to decide how to treat their bodies.

where were you when they upped my cigarette tax 14 years ago?
oh yeah....tanning! well now it's your turn. give it a couple of years, they havn't really begun to tax you yet. just wait till you have to pay four times what you already waste just to look silly!

where were all you protesters when they were taxing the chit out of my cigs?...lol

I believe our President stated many times that unless you make $200,000 or more, you won't pay a penny more in taxes. Perhaps if you take your latest tax return to the tanning salon you may not have to pay the additional (health care) tax.
Then again, maybe he really didn't mean it.

See when the taxes went up on cigarettes you all said who cares or thats great. I said this is the beginning of everything else they will tax. So sorry if I don't care. By the way if you're white and have such issues with darker skinned people why do you tan anyway?

Many of you would complain of smokers yet never once did you complain about what you were doing to 'your own' bodies under the tanning beds. Getting cancer, like smokers, and expecting everyone else to pay for your 'cancerous' decision. Looks like you're in the same boat with the smokers. It feels good to pick on others who 'don't smoke' but do the same damage as if they did smoke.
I also think we need to tax those who have AIDS. Why should Americans pay for their negligence for having unsafe, unprotected sex? Let's tax the hell out of all you non-smoking, health hazard hypocrits.

Hey, shouldn't they tax the artificial 'spray' tanning method as well? It must be bad for you considering you're clogging your pours with dye. Hmm, I think the government needs to look into that more, don't you? I really think the government should tax that. It's bad for you... hypocrits. lol

Buy your own tanning bed if possible.
I use really low bulbs, more for the fact that I live in Alaska
and use it as light therapy, and less for the tanning part.
Tanning(ie; the light) makes me actually feel better.
But just like everything else, there's always people who over do it.
I don't think this tax will be around for long, it screams law suit.
and it's Unconstitutional, pursuit of happiness "not with the Obama admin. Soon they'll be trying to regulate things like fast food, and sports. "don't run you might trip,fall down and end up costing the fedreal government,(excuse me, the Obamanian government money), that's OK though they'll just keep raising taxes to cover the costs. Remember Robin Hood, where the Greedy Prince John, just keeps taking and taking, raising taxes.

Except for the cancer part, How is smoking like tanning? I don't tan outside or in public places, like resturants and the like. OH! I know ... second hand
tanning..."riiiightt" What a stupid comparision!

I tan for medical reasons. I have a skin problem that tanning keeps in check. I could go to the dermatologist and use their machine, but they charge (the one I went to) $30, my co pay at the time, for one minute. I had to go back ten times before it helped my condition. Couldn't afford it any longer. Now when the condition gets bad I would go to a tanning saloon, but might not be able to afford that either.

Really hate to agree with the angry tanners, but I do. As silly as laying in a tanning bed and slowly killing oneself with UV radiation for the sake of 'looking good' may be, this is not the place for government tax intervention. Personal responsibility and self preservation ought to be the order of the day; if somebody wants to fake-bake until it kills 'em, let 'em. It's their body and their health. Same with smokers. Allow Darwinism to run its course and thin the herd.