Tanning Tax

[Lamont Burns]

tax soda, not tanning

 

[KMFJD]

Guido's must be in an uproar

 

[0roo0roo]

girls leathering up their skin worse than smoking.

 

[alkemyst]

pasty people should be drowned at birth...no need to watch the blood coursing through their veins when I am shining.

 

[her209]

For the people saying that the government shouldn't be taxing for "bad" behavior, should the government be giving tax breaks for "good" behavior, e.g., getting married, having kids, etc.?

 

[zinfamous]

won't someone think of the tanning bed smokers!!!??

do they exist?? D:

I'm thinking the lxssr is pointing out that the types of holier-than-though hypocrites that bitch on and on about smoking and the tobacco industry have that mind-health body mentality that doesn't exclude weekly bombardment with potent cancer rays.

I'm sure you got that, though. Or at least...that's how I read it. :whiste:

 

[SlitheryDee]

For the people saying that the government shouldn't be taxing for "bad" behavior, should the government be giving tax breaks for "good" behavior, e.g., getting married, having kids, etc.?

No.

 

[DrPizza]

I've been wondering for a few years if we're going to start seeing a huge spike in skin cancer rates soon. re: tanning beds.

 

[Dumac]

Part of me doesn't like the precedence this sets..

What is something I like, such as video games, is deemed unhealthy and then taxed?

 

[Queasy]

For the people saying that the government shouldn't be taxing for "bad" behavior, should the government be giving tax breaks for "good" behavior, e.g., getting married, having kids, etc.?

No

 

[Train]

For the people saying that the government shouldn't be taxing for "bad" behavior, should the government be giving tax breaks for "good" behavior, e.g., getting married, having kids, etc.?

Government shouldnt be in the business of deciding what's good or bad in the first place.

 

[lupi]

there's a tax break for getting married, someone send me the form!

 

[ZOOYUKA]

For the people saying that the government shouldn't be taxing for "bad" behavior, should the government be giving tax breaks for "good" behavior, e.g., getting married, having kids, etc.?

Since when has having illegitimate children been considered good behavior? One the biggest problems this country faces is skanks shooting babies out like they are a roman candle.

 

[her209]

there's a tax break for getting married, someone send me the form!

Here you go.

 

[Dumac]

Government shouldnt be in the business of deciding what's good or bad in the first place.

Then what is government for?

 

[marrr]

Then what is government for?

taxing us to death.

 

[jpeyton]

And the state of New Jersey let's out a collective sigh of relief.

 

[her209]

Then what is government for?

To keep us from killing each other.

 

[Train]

Then what is government for?

Government has three purposes:

•Provide for the common defense (against external threats)
•Provide for the enforcement of contracts
•Coin money to support trade
These functions are then expanded by contracts amongst free peoples as exemplified by the US Constitution, which includes the original answer:

•The function of government is to protect individual rights.
Simple examples:

•Defense - a nation which does not control its borders is not a nation
•Enforcing contracts ... ever see how contracts get enforced when the courts do not have jurisdiction? Think gang-shootings and knee-capping.
•Coin money ... try taking 400 bushels of $4 corn to the stereo shop

http://wiki.answers.com/Q/What_is_the_function_of_government

Nowhere in there does it say functon as everyone's mommy.

 

[zinfamous]

http://wiki.answers.com/Q/What_is_the_function_of_government

Nowhere in there does it say function as everyone's mommy.

A mommy that fails to discipline her undisciplined children, or provide a means to support, perhaps educate and encourage her children that need a little help, is a useless mommy.

say we let everyone go un-nurtured to any degree, then we have chaos.

 

[Train]

A mommy that fails to discipline her undisciplined children, or provide a means to support, perhaps educate and encourage her children that need a little help, is a useless mommy.

say we let everyone go un-nurtured to any degree, then we have chaos.

point, missed.

I said NOT function as a mommy, period.

Amazingly, it wasnt until the govt tried to add this function did it start failing at it. And even in the hypothetical scenario in which it would succeed at this function, I still don't want it.

 

[SlitheryDee]

A mommy that fails to discipline her undisciplined children, or provide a means to support, perhaps educate and encourage her children that need a little help, is a useless mommy.

say we let everyone go un-nurtured to any degree, then we have chaos.

A brick is also a useless mommy because it does not discipline, support, educate, or nurture. Good thing it was never meant to be a mommy.

 

[Slapstick]

A brick is also a useless mommy because it does not discipline, support, educate, or nurture. Good thing it was never meant to be a mommy.

I beg to differ, ever get hit with a brick? Now that's discipline! And what you did to get hit with a brick I bet you won't do again, that's education!

 

[KK]

same guy who invented bottled water!

Brilliant!

Same guy that invented the sperm bank.

 

[Acanthus]

Tax them. Fake tans are ugly anyway. And they should be illegal for minors.

this.