Tan Tax hits em where it hurts: the skin

Of all of the initiatives President Obama has started, this is probably the best: a 10% tax on tanning. Now, this is one of the most non-essential things we, as a society, have come up with. Surely no one will have a problem with this, right? I mean, "The Situation" has already been interviewed in the neighborhood, we don't want to see any (more) Snookis roaming the streets, do we?

"“It’s just amazing how arbitrary it can be,” complains Robert Alimena, owner of The Tanning Room in Carroll Gardens, Brooklyn. “This is going to drive business completely the other way.”

“It’s just a bad idea. It encapsulates everything that’s wrong with Washington,” says John Overstreet, executive director of the Indoor Tanning Association, which apparently exists."

You stay classy, tanners everywhere. From the New York Post.