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Title: DON'T GO THERE: DEMS EYE 10% TAX ON BOTOX, COSMETIC SURGERY
Post by: headhuntersix on July 27, 2009, 03:24:16 PM

We have 2 Palin threads about nothing yet these pricks are finding "fun" taxes for everybody. Just wait something u do or like will be included.


Face-lifts, tummy tucks and hair transplants could be hit with a new tax to help finance the trillion-dollar healthcare overhaul plan, CONGRESS DAILY reports.

The Senate Finance Committee has discussed imposing a 10% excise tax on cosmetic surgery deemed unnecessary for medical purposes.

DAILY's Peter Cohn reveals: 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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Title: Re: DON'T GO THERE: DEMS EYE 10% TAX ON BOTOX, COSMETIC SURGERY
Post by: Dos Equis on July 27, 2009, 03:41:09 PM

Good grief.  Is tax/spend the only language these people speak?? 

Title: Re: DON'T GO THERE: DEMS EYE 10% TAX ON BOTOX, COSMETIC SURGERY
Post by: headhuntersix on July 27, 2009, 04:12:24 PM

Apparently video game taxes were on the table as well....see. U guys whined about GWB listening to ur phone sex calls..now Barry won't let u eat, smoke or drink. U won't be able to hunt or play video games. U'll have to drive a euro deathbox and if u get sick after after 70 or so....to bad ur dead. Yep its getting to be about that time....

Title: Re: DON'T GO THERE: DEMS EYE 10% TAX ON BOTOX, COSMETIC SURGERY
Post by: Kazan on July 27, 2009, 04:24:35 PM

(http://www.sarcasticpolitics.com/bumpers/120b.jpg)

Title: Re: DON'T GO THERE: DEMS EYE 10% TAX ON BOTOX, COSMETIC SURGERY
Post by: Soul Crusher on July 28, 2009, 04:41:04 AM

Quote from: Kazan on July 27, 2009, 04:24:35 PM

(http://www.sarcasticpolitics.com/bumpers/120b.jpg)

Pelosi alone might be able to fund the hwealth care bill if this goes through.