America's Youth vs. Big Government

In the days where the government can hide any tax they want inside a 2,000 page piece of legislation, you never know how the next great political activist gets born.  As it turns out, we may have the next Che Guevara on our hands, with Jersey Shore star, Snooki.

Snooki, infamous for her glorious red-orange tan, has recently criticized President Obama’s tanning tax, hidden inside the Orwellian socialized Health Care insurance mandate bill.  The hit MTV show has such a following that her comments were quickly picked up by the mainstream media, such as Politico and DrudgeReport.  She explains why she has resorted to the unreliable method of spray tan:

“I don’t go tanning-tanning anymore because [President] Obama put a 10 percent tax on tanning. … He did that because of us.

A seemingly straight forward statement, but read in between the lines and she’s calling for a revolution!  Let us all march on D.C.!

In all seriousness, she has good reason to be upset.  The government can now tax and regulate anything we put on/in our bodies, and often times they do so by sneaking in a new restriction into a massive bill which has nothing to do with said regulation.

We often times laugh at taxes such as the “tanning tax,” because they don’t always apply to us.  But just because we may not pay to be tanned every week, we should not write off Snooki’s frustrations as silly.  Someday the government will come after your lifestyle and you won’t like it.  Want to drive a sports car with poor gas mileage?  Maybe you’re next… oh wait they already have higher taxes for that.  Like to eat McDonald’s?  In the future, you may be paying extra for those trans-fats.

The government simply does not have the authority to tell us what we can and can not put into (or onto) our bodies.  It is a slap in the face of the Founders who specifically drafted The Constitution to protect us from an overwhelming  government, but we let politicians get away with it anyways.  Their increasingly far-reaching control over our lives is nothing short of an attack on us, American citizens.

Snookie has it right.  The government is doing this “because of us.”