Is the new "Tanning Tax" racially biased?

#28
#28
I travel through Tennessee twice a month and spend $5 on a powerball ticket. The way I view it, $10 a month is worth the chance, even though I won't win. If nothing else, it goes towards education, which isn't bad.

....At least I realize I'm paying a stupid tax.
 
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rjd970 said:
I travel through Tennessee twice a month and spend $5 on a powerball ticket. The way I view it, $10 a month is worth the chance, even though I won't win. If nothing else, it goes towards education, which isn't bad.

....At least I realize I'm paying a stupid tax.
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and that mentality is different than the guy selling his food stamps at a discount to buy Powerball tickets. For you, it's almost whimsy. For him, it's a lifestyle.
 
#30
#30
it's a tax on a service used mostly by a particular race....how is that not racially biased?
 
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Are we saying that any law that has a disproportionate effect on one race should be tossed?
 
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paul1454 said:
Haha. I only ask cause I sure as heck don't want to get rid of things like drug and other criminal laws (even though they clearly affect one race more than others).
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because drugs and crime are something in your genes? Interesting
 
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paul1454 said:
Because both are choices one makes, neither are innate.
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I see it as a choice issue as well. Just because I am white doesn't mean I have to lay in a tanning bed. I don't feel it is racially biased against me because it is a simple choice. There are other ways to get a tan, and I don't even have to have one.
 
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TennTradition said:
I see it as a choice issue as well. Just because I am white doesn't mean I have to lay in a tanning bed. I don't feel it is racially biased against me because it is a simple choice. There are other ways to get a tan, and I don't even have to have one.
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Exactly. Am I arguing for a tanning tax? No. All I am saying is that arguing against the tanning tax on the ground of race inequity is silly. There are plenty of laws that have unequal side-effects and if one thinks we should get rid of one on that basis, why not get rid of them all?
 
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TennTradition said:
I see it as a choice issue as well. Just because I am white doesn't mean I have to lay in a tanning bed. I don't feel it is racially biased against me because it is a simple choice. There are other ways to get a tan, and I don't even have to have one.
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it's a choice but a large amount of the population is left out because it would do absolutely no good for them to use it. It targets a very specific group and would be as popular as the botox tax was with Pelosi.
 
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utvolpj said:
it's a choice but a large amount of the population is left out because it would do absolutely no good for them to use it. It targets a very specific group and would be as popular as the botox tax was with Pelosi.
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she would single handedly pay off the defecit
 
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paul1454 said:
Exactly. Am I arguing for a tanning tax? No. All I am saying is that arguing against the tanning tax on the ground of race inequity is silly. There are plenty of laws that have unequal side-effects and if one thinks we should get rid of one on that basis, why not get rid of them all?
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why do you keep going back to comparing laws and taxes? Not the same at all
 
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