A tax on tanning booths is racist!

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Does it get any more hysterical than this? Glenn Beck is on vacation this week, but his fill-in host, "Doc" Thompson, has successfully brought the crazy:

The health care bill the president just signed into law includes a 10 percent tax on all indoor tanning sessions starting July 1st, and I say, who uses tanning? Is it dark-skinned people? I don't think so. I would guess that most tanning sessions are from light-skinned Americans. Why would the President of the United States of America -- a man who says he understands racism, a man who has been confronted with racism -- why would he sign such a racist law? Why would he agree to do that? Well now I feel the pain of racism.

Sorry, Doc, but just as the law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich and the poor from sleeping under bridges, so too it taxes the light-skinned and the dark-skinned equally while they sleep under tanning lights.