THE NEWEST DEMOCRAT TAX … PLASTIC SURGERY?

We have yet another new tax from Obama and the Democrats! Do these people just sit around all day long looking for something to tax? Where do you think we would be if Democrats spent one half of the time they spend thinking about new taxes, thinking of ways to cut the size and cost of government? How much better off do you think we would be?

Okay so this new tax … the Democrats want a 10% tax on plastic surgery to help pay for Obamacare. Now I know exactly what you are thinking … That’s just a bunch of rich people getting their facelifts and their plastic boobies! And I’m sure that’s what the Democrats were thinking when they came up with this.

Now, here’s where we run into the problems. What about the plastic surgery that is done for the purposes of repairing injuries or burn damage? Uh oh! Looks like we are going to have an exception right off the bat. Now what about surgery for re-creating breasts for women with breast cancer … uh oh! We are going to need another exemption! If you are getting fake boobs: a 10% tax. If you are repairing you original equipment: no tax there. What about repairing scarring from an automobile accident? You see where this is going, folks. All we are doing here is increasing the bureaucracy.

Then there is this belief that plastic surgery is for rich people. Horsesqueeze. Statistics show that 90% of all plastic surgery patients earn less than $90,000 a year. Those people who are lower income and middle class. So here is yet ANOTHER Obama tax on the middle class. Oh but they will get around it by calling it something else; it’s not a “tax” it’s a “fee.” Or a “surcharge.”

All of this doesn’t matter much. It is all about taking more of your money and putting it into the hands of the government. I am so sick to death of this Democrat drive … every day that passes … they sit in their little committee rooms up there, they sit in their offices, they lurk around their West Wing offices in the White House … and all they think about, day after day, are two things. Number one: how can we grow government? Number two: how can we tax people to pay for it?