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.

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