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Mention the new “tan tax” in a major news outlet and cries of discrimination and reverse racism often follow.

The complaint surfaced on reader comment boards to blogs and news Web sites back in December, when it became clear that the levy — a 10 percent surcharge on the use of ultraviolet tanning beds — was likely to be included in the new health-care overhaul bill. Since then, it’s been repeated by conservative commentators such as Rush Limbaugh and Doc Thompson, a fill-in host for Glenn Beck who intoned in March, “I now know the pain of racism.”

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  • http://www.blackplanet.com/MiSz_PiNk_DiamOnd/ MiSz_PiNk_DiamOnd

    OMG Why are people so stupid? THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS ‘REVERSE’ RACISM! OMG!!!!!

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/CaliFemme23/ CaliFemme23

    If there was a such thing as ‘reverse racism’, then WE would have our collective foot on that white man’s NECK! If there was such a thing as reverse racism, we would FORCE the whites into slavery for the next 500 years…Thats reverse on that ass!

    And ANY white person who now wants to LOOK BLACK, i.e. tanning..Should get taxed…I know many black people that pay out the ass everyday for trying to be white..HMPH!

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/TrUtH_HuRtZ_0924/ TrUtH_HuRtZ_0924

    I dont think this is a case of reverse racism. It is a tax being imposed for the use of a machine that will tan you, but also might increase your chances of cancer of some other skin disease. Its the same tax, the out on cigarettes and alcohol. What these taxes say is, if you are going to be a consumer of something you know has potentially harmful side effects, we are going to tax you for the use. So should you develop some major side effect, these taxes could potentially offset costs associated with remedying your side effect, since so many Americans dont have health insurance. Even those who have insurance, that have gone thru something required extensive treatment, know sometimes insurance will only cover up to a certain portion.

    So if you want to pay to lay in a booth, that does the same thing the sun does at an excelerated pace, you have got to pay.

    Tanning is the new thing…its all about supply and demand…you want, you got it…but its just gonna cost you a lil more.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/nmryda/ nmryda

    To me tanning is on par with cigarette smoking (which I’ll admit I’m a partaker of), except @ least smoking is physically addictive. Smoking is a stupid act that is also something a lot of people struggle with in terms of trying to quit. Tanning is just plain stupid. I don’t understand the aesthetic enjoyment white people get from PURPOSELY tanning, especially with the dangers and disastrous effects that come with it (ala burns or, I don’t know, SKIN CANCER). Somebody clue me in ’cause it just seems insanely stupid to me; why NOT throw a tax on it?!

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Johnny_Walker/ Johnny_Walker

    I’m trying to care about this…but try as I might, I just can’t.

    @CaliFemme23
    “And ANY white person who now wants to LOOK BLACK, i.e. tanning..Should get taxed…I know many black people that pay out the ass everyday for trying to be white..HMPH!”

    lmao..agreed on that one.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/SoularFlarez/ SoularFlarez

    well until they make yall pay a SUNSHINE-TAX, take your dumbazz outside and praise Ra!

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    Blah, Blah, Blah, Blah…..

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/dxknows/ dxknows

    All sh*t their goes.The rest of Pres.Obama white supporters.And here comes the Tan Party.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/AfricanSpeech/ AfricanSpeech

    LMBO@dxknows…

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/odoggz/ odoggz

    Stupid ass mofos in this country. There are MANY non-black (with darkskin) peeople out there, who tan. It’s not just white people. Latino, asians, etc use that crap. And there are tons of non-black people who have darker or already tanned skin, like Asians all throughout Asia, so WTF is this blowing back on black people for?

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/catgirlTX1/ catgirlTX1

    If i had the power to reverse racism lol WHITE FOLKS WOULD BE CATCHING HELL FROM ME. LOL LOL ON ANOTHER NOTE………. DO WE REALLY GIVE A DAMN……… I DONT. STOP PRINTING THESE WEAK ASS STORIES.

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  • http://www.blackplanet.com/alanidmc/ alanidmc

    As soon as a Black president was elected in America, people cry “reverse racism” at every turn. If racism was really reversed, White people would be enslaved, lynched, hosed, withheld from voting and all that crap. in all this country’s history, true racism has never been reversed. They need to stop with all that crap.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/killasweet82/ killasweet82

    tan the ‘saltine’tm crackers asses!

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/killasweet82/ killasweet82

    …i ment to say tax the saltine cracker asses! wrote the last comment tooooo fast

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