You Know What’d Be Fun? Let’s Tax Pelosi’s Botox to Fund Obamacare!
There is no way in the world that this will get past Nancy Pelosi.
Face-lifts, tummy tucks and hair transplants could be hit with a new tax to help finance the trillion-dollar healthcare overhaul plan, according to sources familiar with the Senate talks.
The Senate Finance Committee has discussed imposing a 10 percent excise tax on cosmetic surgery deemed unnecessary for medical purposes. The idea was broached in a meeting with OMB Director Orszag in mid-July, after which Senate Finance Chairman Max Baucus told reporters he had heard some “interesting,” “creative,” and “kind of fun” ideas.
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According to the IRS, deductions for procedures such as reconstructive surgery due to cancer or laser eye surgery would be allowed. But nose jobs, liposuction, teeth-whitening procedures and Botox injections to smooth wrinkles would be prohibited under Sec. 213 and subject to the new tax.
Emphasis mine. Panic Pelosi’s.
Seriously, can you imagine that San Fran Nan will agree to pay substantially more for the procedure that gives her that youthful glow, erases those pesky wrinkles from around her eyes, and ensures that even while asleep she’ll have the perpetually-surprised look of someone who just sat on whoopie cushion with a tack taped to the top? She’d so ridiculously Botoxed right now that if she missed a treatment, she’d fall apart like one of the Nazis who opened the Ark of the Covenant. This surtax would bankrupt her in five years. I can’t imagine that her rapacious political ambition would ever win out over her vanity, so that little idea is a good as doomed.
I’m also not very enchanted with Senator Baucus’ sense of whimsy. Any person who thinks that sitting in a room for hours with a bunch of other greedy-grabbers, brainstorming ways to take more of your money to fuel their newest campaign controbutor fundapalooza “kind of fun”, isn’t operating on the same level as we normal human beings. He has transcended mortal concerns and is now operating on a more enlightened plain where we simple carbon-based lifeforms exist to be fleeced for our money or our votes.
Hey, I have an idea that would be “kind of fun”. Let’s have Senator Baucus tell Speaker Pelosi what a rollicking good time he had thinking up a way to make her Botox injections ten percent more expensive. Make sure there’s a camera crew there first, though. the public witness would very well save him from being consumed by her fury.
(via Johanna Neuman)
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Category: Health Care Craziness, Our New Democratic Overlords, The Rise of the Nanny State
I noted snarkily <a>here that "Just taxing Pelosi would retire the national debt.
Hrumph.