ClydeR
08-06-2013, 10:37 AM
A few days after Pennsylvania Republican Rep. Mike Kelly said that President Barack Obama “divides us on race,” his Republican colleague from Florida called the president’s signature health care law “racist” because of its tax on tanning salons.
Freshman Rep. Ted Yoho told constituents at a town hall event that a provision in Obamacare imposing a 10 percent tax on tanning bed use was a “racist tax” that discriminates “because of the color of my skin.”
More... (http://blogs.rollcall.com/goppers/racist-tanning-tax-pinned-to-obama-by-freshman-yoho/)
It's true. White people are disproportionately impacted by the tanning tax.
Freshman Rep. Ted Yoho told constituents at a town hall event that a provision in Obamacare imposing a 10 percent tax on tanning bed use was a “racist tax” that discriminates “because of the color of my skin.”
More... (http://blogs.rollcall.com/goppers/racist-tanning-tax-pinned-to-obama-by-freshman-yoho/)
It's true. White people are disproportionately impacted by the tanning tax.