FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: June 14, 2010
Contact: Cameron Ross, (813)369-2904, staffdirector@pickprendergast.com
A 10 % tax hike may sink local businesses
Tampa, FL – The tanning tax that took effect on July 1 not only violates two of the Obama administration promises to the people, but also is a discriminatory excise tax targeting small businesses. Mike Prendergast, Republican candidate for Congress in Florida’s Eleventh District, understands the tax exemplifies what people want to see changed in Washington and would work diligently to eliminate these practices and rectify these inequities.
Lawmakers buried the provisions for the tax on the fourth to final page of the 906 page Health Care Reform Bill. Still not convinced the tax would be camouflaged well enough from the public, “They [Congress] slipped it in the middle of the night three days before the [Senate] bill passed on Christmas Eve,” said John Overstreet of the Indoor Tanning Association. The public is shut out from these midnight meetings in Washington.
The President pledged not to raise taxes on families earning less than $250,000 as well as complete transparency of the Government to the people. Obama is not directly taxing families earning less than $250,000, just the small business owners of independent tanning salons, over half of whom are women, and the over 19,000 salons who employ 160,000 Americans. These small businesses will not survive the new cost burden so they are forced to pass on the tax, which they are then demonized for by the Government.
Transparency has been murky at best. Software has yet to be updated on most cash registers to include the tax and information provided to businesses has been scarce, “’Small business owners across the country have already been feeling the financial and paperwork burdens caused by the tax, with some shutting their doors and others laying off employees,’” president of Americans for Tax Reform Grover Norquis said. He added that local businesses claim information about the tax has been, “next to none.”
Colonel Prendergast said, “Rep. Kathy Castor and Nancy Pelosi, both supporters of the tax, have once again collaborated against their constituents. There are over 75 tanning facilities in the Greater Tampa Bay area and 1,912 tanning facilities estimated to employ 6,840 people, serving 1.1 million people in California. We the people deserve better than what our representatives. Small business can no longer afford Washington. The time for change is now.”
ObamaCare Tax Fallout Fries Tanning Salons
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: June 14, 2010
Contact: Cameron Ross, (813)369-2904, staffdirector@pickprendergast.com
A 10 % tax hike may sink local businesses
Tampa, FL – The tanning tax that took effect on July 1 not only violates two of the Obama administration promises to the people, but also is a discriminatory excise tax targeting small businesses. Mike Prendergast, Republican candidate for Congress in Florida’s Eleventh District, understands the tax exemplifies what people want to see changed in Washington and would work diligently to eliminate these practices and rectify these inequities.
Lawmakers buried the provisions for the tax on the fourth to final page of the 906 page Health Care Reform Bill. Still not convinced the tax would be camouflaged well enough from the public, “They [Congress] slipped it in the middle of the night three days before the [Senate] bill passed on Christmas Eve,” said John Overstreet of the Indoor Tanning Association. The public is shut out from these midnight meetings in Washington.
The President pledged not to raise taxes on families earning less than $250,000 as well as complete transparency of the Government to the people. Obama is not directly taxing families earning less than $250,000, just the small business owners of independent tanning salons, over half of whom are women, and the over 19,000 salons who employ 160,000 Americans. These small businesses will not survive the new cost burden so they are forced to pass on the tax, which they are then demonized for by the Government.
Transparency has been murky at best. Software has yet to be updated on most cash registers to include the tax and information provided to businesses has been scarce, “’Small business owners across the country have already been feeling the financial and paperwork burdens caused by the tax, with some shutting their doors and others laying off employees,’” president of Americans for Tax Reform Grover Norquis said. He added that local businesses claim information about the tax has been, “next to none.”
Colonel Prendergast said, “Rep. Kathy Castor and Nancy Pelosi, both supporters of the tax, have once again collaborated against their constituents. There are over 75 tanning facilities in the Greater Tampa Bay area and 1,912 tanning facilities estimated to employ 6,840 people, serving 1.1 million people in California. We the people deserve better than what our representatives. Small business can no longer afford Washington. The time for change is now.”
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