{"id":16812,"date":"2015-07-15T10:50:27","date_gmt":"2015-07-15T14:50:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/smarttan.com\/news\/?p=16812"},"modified":"2015-07-15T11:01:28","modified_gmt":"2015-07-15T15:01:28","slug":"tan-tax-gimmick-no-way-to-fund-aca-huff-post-blog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.smarttan.com\/index.php\/tan-tax-gimmick-no-way-to-fund-aca-huff-post-blog\/","title":{"rendered":"Tan Tax ‘Gimmick’ No Way to Fund ACA: Huff Post Blog"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The federal excise tax on indoor tanning services is the type of gimmick that cannot successfully fund the Affordable Care Act, columnist Paul Alexander wrote last week in the\u00a0Huffington Post blog, detailing the tax’s failure to meet revenue expectations and its harsh consequences on the industry.<\/p>\n

“If Obamacare is here to stay, funding for it must be addressed. The Obama administration can’t use gimmicks like a tanning tax to distract from who is really going to pay for this law: policyholders who will see the cost of their insurance skyrocket,” Alexander wrote.\u00a0Click here to read the entire article from the Huffington Post.<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

The “Tanning Tax Repeal Act of 2015” is clearly gaining support, but\u00a0it’s still very important that\u00a0your representatives in Congress\u00a0know how important this bill is to everyone involved in the industry.<\/p>\n

With links provided by the American Suntanning Association, it takes less than a minute to send a pre-written letter to your representative. The ASA encourages everyone to call their representatives as well.<\/p>\n

Click here to submit a letter as a salon owner\/employee<\/a><\/p>\n

Click here for a link to share with your customers<\/a><\/p>\n

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The federal excise tax on indoor tanning services is the type of gimmick that cannot successfully fund the Affordable Care Act, columnist Paul Alexander wrote last week in the\u00a0Huffington Post blog, detailing the tax’s failure to meet revenue expectations and its harsh consequences on the industry. “If Obamacare is here to stay, funding for it […]<\/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-16812","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"\nTan Tax 'Gimmick' No Way to Fund ACA: Huff Post Blog - Smart Tan News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The federal excise tax on indoor tanning services is the type of gimmick that cannot successfully fund the Affordable Care Act, columnist Paul Alexander wrote last week in the\u00a0Huffington Post blog, detailing the tax's failure to meet revenue expectations and its harsh consequences on the industry. 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