Something that not too many people may be upset about, seeing how indoor tanning at salons have become pretty out of fashion because of the dangers of excess sun exposure as warned by so many (although I do believe we need some sun, we need that vitamin D!), is the fact that the Obama administration has decided to tax indoor tanning to help recover the billions lost in other concessions for the economy’s fix it package (aka the bailout).

So, to pay for so many shortcomings of banks, tanning salons will now have to pay a tanning tax if they offer indoor tanning to the government. I guess you gotta recover your money some how, huh? What I do find a little interesting is that they chose to tax an unnecessary, fun thing that lots of teens do and there has been such a drive to stop teens from tanning, I’m thinking that they did this on purpose to sort of kill two birds with one stone.

Although I hardly doubt that many young girls will stop going tanning just because of a tax. My guess is that the tax will be somewhat negligible when the cost is inevitably passed on to the consumer, and they’ll barely notice the difference in the cost of their tanning sessions.

Should be interesting to see how this shakes out. I don’t think it will force tanning salons to go under or anything like that, as they will definitely find a way to pass the cost on to their customers, but they may have a little price adjusting to do for a while when they try to figure out their new strategies for covering costs.