{"id":10857,"date":"2012-12-10T04:00:42","date_gmt":"2012-12-10T09:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/smarttan.com\/news\/?p=10857"},"modified":"2012-12-07T16:29:38","modified_gmt":"2012-12-07T21:29:38","slug":"forbes-article-government-stealing-freedoms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.smarttan.com\/index.php\/forbes-article-government-stealing-freedoms\/","title":{"rendered":"Forbes Article: Government Stealing Freedoms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In an op-ed piece for Forbes.com, business and political management firm CEO Kellen Guida cites restrictions on indoor tanning as one of many examples of politicians overstepping boundaries and unnecessarily limiting the freedoms of Americans.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn 2011 over 40,000 laws were passed, many limiting choice on such things as light bulbs, who can use tanning beds, how we may use our own property and what parts of our property are untouchable less you want to face a fine or jail time, home and business exterior lighting and signage, minimum numbers of hours we must pay an employee, mandating many insurances and more,\u201d Guida writes. \u201c\u2026Are we supposed to continue pretending that people are so stupid that our government must eliminate the choices we make and instead dictate everything to us?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He blames this excessive political involvement on an uninformed and insecure bureaucratic class.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have access to more information than ever before but government is limiting our important choices more so than any other time in American history,\u201d he writes. \u201cDoes that make sense to you? It seems backwards, right?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>While the professional tanning community supports constructive and cooperative measures to increase UV awareness and sunburn prevention, a matter our market takes very seriously, passage of legislation denying teenagers with their parents consent access to indoor tanning facilities actually hurts more people than it helps and leads to an <em>increase <\/em>in sunburn and skin injury. Proponents of such measures, however well-intentioned, ignore conflicting research and confounding information and are doing the wrong thing for the right reasons.<\/p>\n<p>Smart Tan members can download more information on tanning\u00a0legislation\u00a0and other subjects from the <a href=\"http:\/\/smarttan.com\/media\/view_downloads.php?category=5\" target=\"_blank\">Resource Library<\/a> in the Member Area of SmartTan.com.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/kellengiuda\/2012\/12\/06\/an-insecure-and-uninformed-political-class-is-stealing-our-freedoms\/\" target=\"_blank\">Click here to read Guida\u2019s piece on Forbes.com.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>SmartTan.com news articles regularly report medical and scientific information to keep you abreast of current events related to UV light. This information is not intended to be used by any party to make unwarranted health claims to promote sunbed usage. Indoor tanning businesses are obligated to communicate a fair and balanced message to all clients about your products and services including the potential risks associated with indoor tanning. Contact your Smart Tan representative to find out more about what you can and can\u2019t say in your tanning salon business.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>\u00a9 2012 International Smart Tan Network. All rights reserved.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In an op-ed piece for Forbes.com, business and political management firm CEO Kellen Guida cites restrictions on indoor tanning as one of many examples of politicians overstepping boundaries and unnecessarily limiting the freedoms of Americans. \u201cIn 2011 over 40,000 laws were passed, many limiting choice on such things as light bulbs, who can use tanning [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10857","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Forbes Article: Government Stealing Freedoms - Smart Tan News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"n an op-ed piece for Forbes.com, business and political management firm CEO Kellen Guida cites restrictions on indoor tanning as one of many examples of politicians overstepping boundaries and unnecessarily limiting the freedoms of Americans.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/news.smarttan.com\/index.php\/forbes-article-government-stealing-freedoms\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Forbes Article: Government Stealing Freedoms - 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