That's right: the new health care reform bill included a 10% tax on tanning salons, which went into effect yesterday. The tax is expected to raise $2.7 billion over the next decade.
Mr. Rogers promptly sent out a press release screaming that the tax would
"kill[s] jobs, hurt[s] women (and) college students."
"In Michigan, where we've lost more jobs than any other state and led the nation in unemployment for more than four years, this tax is another job-killing burden on small businesses," Rogers said.
"The tax targets a service provided by mostly small entrepreneurs, many of them women, and it unfairly hits working women and college students, who make up the majority of tanning customers," he added.
Awww! Mr. Rogers is sticking up for working women and college students! (Do you feel all warm and fuzzy yet?)
Funny, but Mr. Rogers didn't worry about college students when he compromised their voting rights or voted to keep big banks skimming the student loan process.
Come to think of it, he hasn't shown too much concern for workers, small business owners or women's health, either...
Mr. Rogers' drama aside, will the new tax hurt the tanning industry?
An ABC news report finds that
no one thinks a few extra dollars is going to come between diehard tanners and their bronzing. Legislators in favor of the new tax cited health concerns. The industry itself, however, couldn't be healthier.
This is just another example of Mr. Rogers' Olympic-level ability to bring the tears and sell the trauma from a piece of legislation he doesn't like.
Mike Rogers has been in Washington for ten years now -- and our state has lost nearly 800,000 jobs. The next time he starts in on the "job-killing" rant, let's ask him exactly what he's done to grow jobs in Michigan.
Want a REAL representative in 2010?
Write in Lance Enderle for Congress on August 3rd, and let the sun shine in!
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