{"id":15085,"date":"2014-07-09T08:40:56","date_gmt":"2014-07-09T12:40:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/smarttan.com\/news\/?p=15085"},"modified":"2014-07-09T08:46:35","modified_gmt":"2014-07-09T12:46:35","slug":"tan-tax-a-war-on-women-op-ed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.smarttan.com\/index.php\/tan-tax-a-war-on-women-op-ed\/","title":{"rendered":"Tan Tax a &#8216;War on Women&#8217;: Op-Ed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The federal excise tax on indoor tanning has needlessly devastated the predominantly female-owned tanning industry, tax policy expert\u00a0Ryan Ellis wrote in an op-ed article for the <em>The<\/em>\u00a0<em>Washington Times<\/em> last week, calling it Obamacare&#8217;s own &#8220;war on women.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;In the past four years, an estimated 8,000 tanning salons have closed their doors, according to the American Suntanning Association. This has cost 64,000 employees and owners of these tanning salons their jobs,&#8221; Ellis wrote. &#8220;Seventy percent of all tanning salons are owned by women \u2014 an astonishingly high number, considering that women own less than 30 percent of all firms in America. This is clearly an industry where women feel their unique talents fit in very well. This tax on female-owned tanning salons (written by overwhelmingly male tax staffers and voted into law by an overwhelmingly male Congress) is coming at a tremendous price to their slice of the American dream.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The tax not only disproportionately affects women, but\u00a0is &#8220;a nuisance rather than a source of government revenue,&#8221; according to Ellis. Of the more than $1 trillion in tax dollars that Obamacare is projected\u00a0to\u00a0generate\u00a0in the next decade, the tan tax was expected\u00a0to bring in just $2.7 billion, only a fraction of which will actually be collected at the current pace. And as revenue has failed to meet expectations, thousands of businesses have closed and tens of thousands of jobs have been lost.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Obamacare must be repealed, in whole or in part,&#8221; Ellis wrote. &#8220;A very good place to start \u2014 and to help rebuild a devastated startup sector \u2014 is to repeal the just plain dumb Obamacare tanning tax.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/news\/2014\/jul\/2\/ellis-obamacares-war-on-women\/\" target=\"_blank\">Click here to read the entire article.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The federal excise tax on indoor tanning has needlessly devastated the predominantly female-owned tanning industry, tax policy expert\u00a0Ryan Ellis wrote in an op-ed article for the The\u00a0Washington Times last week, calling it Obamacare&#8217;s own &#8220;war on women.&#8221; &#8220;In the past four years, an estimated 8,000 tanning salons have closed their doors, according to the American [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":15090,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15085","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","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>Tan Tax a &#039;War on Women&#039;: Op-Ed - Smart Tan News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The federal excise tax on indoor tanning has needlessly devastated the predominantly female-owned tanning industry, tax policy expert\u00a0Ryan Ellis wrote in an op-ed article for the The\u00a0Washington Times last week, calling it Obamacare&#039;s own &quot;war on women.&quot;  &quot;In the past four years, an estimated 8,000 tanning salons have closed their doors, according to the American Suntanning Association. This has cost 64,000 employees and owners of these tanning salons their jobs,&quot; Ellis wrote. &quot;Seventy percent of all tanning salons are owned by women \u2014 an astonishingly high number, considering that women own less than 30 percent of all firms in America. This is clearly an industry where women feel their unique talents fit in very well. This tax on female-owned tanning salons (written by overwhelmingly male tax staffers and voted into law by an overwhelmingly male Congress) is coming at a tremendous price to their slice of the American dream.&quot;  The tax not only disproportionately affects women, but\u00a0is &quot;a nuisance rather than a source of government revenue,&quot; according to Ellis. Of the more than $1 trillion in tax dollars that Obamacare is projected\u00a0to\u00a0generate\u00a0in the next decade, the tan tax was expected\u00a0to bring in just $2.7 billion, only a fraction of which will actually be collected at the current pace. And as revenue has failed to meet expectations, thousands of businesses have closed and tens of thousands of jobs have been lost.  &quot;Obamacare must be repealed, in whole or in part,&quot; Ellis wrote. &quot;A very good place to start \u2014 and to help rebuild a devastated startup sector \u2014 is to repeal the just plain dumb Obamacare tanning tax.&quot;  Click here to read the entire article.\" \/>\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\/tan-tax-a-war-on-women-op-ed\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Tan Tax a &#039;War on Women&#039;: Op-Ed - Smart Tan News\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The federal excise tax on indoor tanning has needlessly devastated the predominantly female-owned tanning industry, tax policy expert\u00a0Ryan Ellis wrote in an op-ed article for the The\u00a0Washington Times last week, calling it Obamacare&#039;s own &quot;war on women.&quot;  &quot;In the past four years, an estimated 8,000 tanning salons have closed their doors, according to the American Suntanning Association. This has cost 64,000 employees and owners of these tanning salons their jobs,&quot; Ellis wrote. &quot;Seventy percent of all tanning salons are owned by women \u2014 an astonishingly high number, considering that women own less than 30 percent of all firms in America. This is clearly an industry where women feel their unique talents fit in very well. This tax on female-owned tanning salons (written by overwhelmingly male tax staffers and voted into law by an overwhelmingly male Congress) is coming at a tremendous price to their slice of the American dream.&quot;  The tax not only disproportionately affects women, but\u00a0is &quot;a nuisance rather than a source of government revenue,&quot; according to Ellis. Of the more than $1 trillion in tax dollars that Obamacare is projected\u00a0to\u00a0generate\u00a0in the next decade, the tan tax was expected\u00a0to bring in just $2.7 billion, only a fraction of which will actually be collected at the current pace. 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And as revenue has failed to meet expectations, thousands of businesses have closed and tens of thousands of jobs have been lost.  \"Obamacare must be repealed, in whole or in part,\" Ellis wrote. \"A very good place to start \u2014 and to help rebuild a devastated startup sector \u2014 is to repeal the just plain dumb Obamacare tanning tax.\"  Click here to read the entire article.","og_url":"https:\/\/news.smarttan.com\/index.php\/tan-tax-a-war-on-women-op-ed\/","og_site_name":"Smart Tan News","article_publisher":"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/SmartTan","article_published_time":"2014-07-09T12:40:56+00:00","article_modified_time":"2014-07-09T12:46:35+00:00","og_image":[{"width":440,"height":335,"url":"https:\/\/news.smarttan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/tac-tan-7-9-14.jpg","type":"image\/jpeg"}],"author":"smarttannews","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_creator":"@SmartTan","twitter_site":"@SmartTan","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"smarttannews","Est. reading time":"1 minute"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/news.smarttan.com\/index.php\/tan-tax-a-war-on-women-op-ed\/#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/news.smarttan.com\/index.php\/tan-tax-a-war-on-women-op-ed\/"},"author":{"name":"smarttannews","@id":"https:\/\/news.smarttan.com\/#\/schema\/person\/722dc7049af55e0ed743d67ce9ed4819"},"headline":"Tan Tax a &#8216;War on Women&#8217;: Op-Ed","datePublished":"2014-07-09T12:40:56+00:00","dateModified":"2014-07-09T12:46:35+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/news.smarttan.com\/index.php\/tan-tax-a-war-on-women-op-ed\/"},"wordCount":280,"publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/news.smarttan.com\/#organization"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/news.smarttan.com\/index.php\/tan-tax-a-war-on-women-op-ed\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/news.smarttan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/tac-tan-7-9-14.jpg","articleSection":["News"],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/news.smarttan.com\/index.php\/tan-tax-a-war-on-women-op-ed\/","url":"https:\/\/news.smarttan.com\/index.php\/tan-tax-a-war-on-women-op-ed\/","name":"Tan Tax a 'War on Women': Op-Ed - Smart Tan News","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/news.smarttan.com\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/news.smarttan.com\/index.php\/tan-tax-a-war-on-women-op-ed\/#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/news.smarttan.com\/index.php\/tan-tax-a-war-on-women-op-ed\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/news.smarttan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/tac-tan-7-9-14.jpg","datePublished":"2014-07-09T12:40:56+00:00","dateModified":"2014-07-09T12:46:35+00:00","description":"The federal excise tax on indoor tanning has needlessly devastated the predominantly female-owned tanning industry, tax policy expert\u00a0Ryan Ellis wrote in an op-ed article for the The\u00a0Washington Times last week, calling it Obamacare's own \"war on women.\" \"In the past four years, an estimated 8,000 tanning salons have closed their doors, according to the American Suntanning Association. This has cost 64,000 employees and owners of these tanning salons their jobs,\" Ellis wrote. \"Seventy percent of all tanning salons are owned by women \u2014 an astonishingly high number, considering that women own less than 30 percent of all firms in America. This is clearly an industry where women feel their unique talents fit in very well. This tax on female-owned tanning salons (written by overwhelmingly male tax staffers and voted into law by an overwhelmingly male Congress) is coming at a tremendous price to their slice of the American dream.\" The tax not only disproportionately affects women, but\u00a0is \"a nuisance rather than a source of government revenue,\" according to Ellis. Of the more than $1 trillion in tax dollars that Obamacare is projected\u00a0to\u00a0generate\u00a0in the next decade, the tan tax was expected\u00a0to bring in just $2.7 billion, only a fraction of which will actually be collected at the current pace. And as revenue has failed to meet expectations, thousands of businesses have closed and tens of thousands of jobs have been lost. \"Obamacare must be repealed, in whole or in part,\" Ellis wrote. \"A very good place to start \u2014 and to help rebuild a devastated startup sector \u2014 is to repeal the just plain dumb Obamacare tanning tax.\" Click here to read the entire article.","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/news.smarttan.com\/index.php\/tan-tax-a-war-on-women-op-ed\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/news.smarttan.com\/index.php\/tan-tax-a-war-on-women-op-ed\/"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/news.smarttan.com\/index.php\/tan-tax-a-war-on-women-op-ed\/#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/news.smarttan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/tac-tan-7-9-14.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/news.smarttan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/tac-tan-7-9-14.jpg","width":440,"height":335},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/news.smarttan.com\/index.php\/tan-tax-a-war-on-women-op-ed\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/news.smarttan.com\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Tan Tax a &#8216;War on Women&#8217;: Op-Ed"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/news.smarttan.com\/#website","url":"https:\/\/news.smarttan.com\/","name":"Smart Tan News","description":"","publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/news.smarttan.com\/#organization"},"potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/news.smarttan.com\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https:\/\/news.smarttan.com\/#organization","name":"Smart Tan","url":"https:\/\/news.smarttan.com\/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/news.smarttan.com\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/smarttan.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Smart-Tan.png","contentUrl":"https:\/\/smarttan.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Smart-Tan.png","width":500,"height":164,"caption":"Smart Tan"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/news.smarttan.com\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/"},"sameAs":["https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/SmartTan","https:\/\/x.com\/SmartTan"]},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/news.smarttan.com\/#\/schema\/person\/722dc7049af55e0ed743d67ce9ed4819","name":"smarttannews","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/c0189f76465f47ce293287354f8076bfdb83130e65538eb34fcd2cd44e9f0e53?s=96&d=mm&r=g","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/c0189f76465f47ce293287354f8076bfdb83130e65538eb34fcd2cd44e9f0e53?s=96&d=mm&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/c0189f76465f47ce293287354f8076bfdb83130e65538eb34fcd2cd44e9f0e53?s=96&d=mm&r=g","caption":"smarttannews"},"url":"https:\/\/news.smarttan.com\/index.php\/author\/smarttannews\/"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.smarttan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15085","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.smarttan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.smarttan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.smarttan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.smarttan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15085"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/news.smarttan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15085\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15092,"href":"https:\/\/news.smarttan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15085\/revisions\/15092"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.smarttan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15090"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.smarttan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15085"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.smarttan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15085"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.smarttan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15085"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}