why not tax...abortions?
What is it with Max Baucus? It’s like new tax revenue is the Holy Grail for this guy.
I’m not sure if this is serious or not, but I haven’t laughed so hard in quite a long time. All the Hollyweird people are going to start marching in the streets and there will be riots if this tax goes through. How much will Michael Jackson’s estate have to pay back taxes?
Tax coffee. Seriously, anyone that would pay more than a buck or two for a cup of Joe certainly wouldn’t mind (or even know).
How is this different from abortion?
Is this proposed tax related to Obama’s remark: “You will not to stop spending money on things that will not make you healthier?” He cannot be talking about the normal sins (smoking and drinking). He needs smokers and drinkers to fund his Utopian plans. I am not sure why spending on plastic surgery would imperil his Utopian dreams.
I’m not a strong supporter of taxes, but if they’re fishing with putting balloons up to see which way the wind is blowing, here’s my suggestion. A 50% excise tax on any and all prescription medication advertising. That should certainly raise a lot of revenue. Oh, and same excise tax on any law firm solicitation of people to sue a drug company.
What’s the definition of “surgery”? Lot’s of cosmetic procedures are not surgical.
What’s next....turning over the sofa cushions looking for spare change?
Would this tax apply to organisms undergoing “sex change” operations?
Tax clean needles when given to degenerate druggies who could care less about costs bestowed upon society.
This will alienate the core RAT constituency: women!
So now the boobs want to tax the boobs??!!!???
Must every act be taxed? and if so under what legal theory?!
Except maybe Nancy Pelosi...
Having to reach this deep to fund government will teach the government a real lesson, right?
If voters want to pay for subsidized healthcare, it should be the general taxpayers who pay for it. NOT other sick people (current system). And NOT people needing cosmetic surgery (proposed system).
You can argue whether or not it’s fair to have government subsidize any healthcare. It think it is fair and a reasonable function of government to an extent.
But to make other health care users pay for indigent costs is just WRONG. It penalizes sick people.
Oh great. Let’s kill even more jobs! This industry, whether they like it or not, is part of the economy, and slapping a tax on these procedures will reduce demand and result in people losing jobs. These dems don’t care one whit whether people have jobs or not.
It is almost funny, if it weren’t so despicable, to see these money hungry dems flail about from one tax to the next to try to pay for their utopian health care dream.
Well that says it all. For Dems, thinking up new taxes is FUN. To me, throwing these morons out of office is IMPERATIVE.