Comments about ‘Teen may need to bring parent to tanning salon under proposed Utah law’

"But Brian Moser, the owner of tanning salons in Layton and Roy, said the problem needs enforcement, not more laws."

No, I think the problem needs people to stop trying to earn a living by providing a service that causes death.

"The salons that are doing it right should not be penalized by the ones that are not doing it right."

The ones that are doing it right are the ones that leave the tanning beds unplugged.

"Each of the three Republicans on the panel noted that the proposal went against their beliefs in limited government intervention..."

When businesses are giving people cancer, I think it's time to intervene.

Gimme a break!

Do we really need a law like this?

How about just pass one comprehensive law instead of a million little ones:

"Parents should not have kids unless they use good judgment and don't let them do stupid stuff that will seriously hurt them." This is the parents' responsibility, not something for the nanny state to send the tanning police out to micromanage.

Perhaps the legislature would do more "good" if they passed a law keeping teens out of automobiles which result in scores of deaths and hundreds of injuries every year.

Please, legislators, go back to working on real problems, not nanny state "feel good" meddling with insignificant stuff that is none of your business.

And, no, I have never been anywhere near a tanning place, and have no interest in their success or failure. In fact, I think it is a wasteful, dumb and vain thing to do at all. But, people should be free to do stuff like that if they want to. Or, parents should be free to tell their kids "No!" if they don't want them to.

He is right, parents can tell their children not to visit tanning salons because they are dangerous, but there is no law allowing parental rights to force that decisions on their children. How ever there are laws that allow minors and babies to give them the right to make their own choices right out of the womb.

Since the existing laws and tanning salons choose not to "self regulate" their business with any morality or to protect children/adults from exposure to cancer rays then it becomes the duty of the government to put some regulations in to affect to protect people from being victimized by snake oil salesmen. The snake oil salesmen brought about the need for consumer laws and this is why.

Tanning salons are loan sharks that prey and nurture its volume of business on emotions and vanity and childrens minds.

No, the parents won't have to accompany the children, the business have to stop tanning minors which is child abuse and mistreatment of children.

Will big brother please tell me when I may use the bathroom? I really have to go.