Published By: All Right Magazine on October 26, 2009

By BARBARA CASCIO

Obama has now proposed to tax pacemakers, heart valves and other similar devices.  If this isn’t literally heartless, I don’t know what is. Proposing a tax for the people that struggle living on pacemakers and heart valves–in my eyes could not sink any lower. It is beyond heartless.

If you are not appalled, you should be. The neediest, you know, the ones who need pacemakers, heart valves, artificial limbs, hips, wheelchairs, are being proposed to be taxed to reduce the cost of medical care.

I have a better idea. How about taxing the most vain, not the neediest but the most egocentric, self absorbed, narcissist people–you know the ones– the people who are on the Guinness Book of World Records list for plastic surgery. How about taxing them? I would bet you would get a lot of money that way. Someone, take a survey on how much surgery is being down daily and how some people have more than one procedure done.

How about these people who find a new way of changing themselves, that make them unrecognizable, (not that we knew some of them before) sometimes they are scary. They have the money to pay the taxes; sounds good to me.  Money is the key word here, because obviously they have it to spend, frivolously. Some are forever changing.

Now this makes sense to me. The poor figuratively and literally should be left alone. Taxing those who are literally broken is indeed cruel.

Likewise, having to look at some of the plastic surgery crowd is cruel for us to view. It’s like a permanent Halloween, which I have to admit is probably my least favorite holiday. Sure, it was fun getting half of my son’s candy, but I never cared for the holiday. The ironic thing is that I enjoy seeing the before-and-after plastic surgery pictures. I know, it is crazy, but I find it interesting. I guess I enjoy understanding what people think and see. How enlarged lips is attractive in the least is beyond me.

Therefore, I would like to propose a vote to tax plastic surgery, the unnecessary kind that is–the vanity kind.  Contact your local representative today.

BARBARA CASCIO hails from NY but is currently residing in Arizona. She is a wife, mother, free-lance writer and patriot.

Tags: Healthcare, heart valves, obama, pacemakers, plastic surgery, taxes

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