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claims Florida Rep. Ted Yoho. According to the article, he's not the only one. Former Representative nutcase Alan West claimed the same thing as have a select group of other batshit crazy repubs.
Yoho also backs an investigation into whether President Obama's birth certificate is authentic.
At a Saturday town hall meeting in Gainesville, Fla., Rep. Ted Yoho (R-Fla.) discussed his conversation with House Speaker John Boehner about a provision in the Affordable Care Act that he considered to be "racist": the plan's 10 percent tax on tanning beds.
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The tax in question was initially proposed to deter Americans from frequenting tanning beds, which one study found causes roughly 170,000 cases of skin cancer each year.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/08/05/ted-yoho-tanning-tax-racist_n_3709155.html
Looks like Yoho is giving Goehmert a run for his money when it comes to batshit crazy, though he isn't as seasoned as Louis. He's got a ways to go before he catches up with old Louis.
AnotherMcIntosh
(11,064 posts)cali
(114,904 posts)Their material is all written for them.
NightWatcher
(39,343 posts)HELP!
WilliamPitt
(58,179 posts)It hurts my mind.
AnotherMcIntosh
(11,064 posts)WilliamPitt
(58,179 posts)a la izquierda
(11,794 posts)pnwmom
(108,977 posts)as much as they want.
frylock
(34,825 posts)Igel
(35,300 posts)When they raise taxes on other things you hear complaints like that, too.
Igel doesn't like disproportionate impact for anything but "Gee, isn't that interesting?" purposes. It's the easy way to "show" discrimination--but it requires that you define things properly unequally. And that's how it got into the law and court cases. It was hard to show discrimination by intention--in my cases impossible--so consequence of an act was deemed to reveal intent of an act in the case of certain groups.