Trigger happy former FBI agent, "hedge fund guy" and current Staten Island Congressman Michael Grimm has banked much of his career opposing "Obamacare." As part of this opposition, Grimm has sponsored a bill to repeal the "tanning tax" that currently imposes a 10% levy on indoor tanning salons that is projected to raise $2.5 billion in two years, and will help offset the cost of health care reform. Now, the Indoor Tanning Association has cut Grimm a $500 contribution check for his efforts, and if there was any doubt before, Grimm appears to be deep in the pocket of Big Bronze.
"He came to our association, said he was against taxing one specific industry for a special project," ITA president Daniel Humiston told the Daily News. His organization was "founded to protect the freedom of individuals to acquire a suntan, via natural or artificial light." Amen, brothers. When will Democrats learn that if King George couldn't impose the "Tawny Tariff of 1773," why would they be able to do it in 2011?
Grimm himself was modest about his nobel stance on the practice of giving oneself cancer (that is taxed in other ways): "I made a campaign promise to help small business by repealing Obamacare, of which the tan tax was a part." If you can wipe the tears of joy from your face long enough to GTL today, we recommend that you do it indoors, like nature intended.
