To Bo-tax or not to Bo-tax that is the question
I’m all for a tax on elective cosmetic procedures. Don’t tell me that Botox injections and plastic er um fake tatas aren’t a luxury. Don’t get me wrong, I’m not talking about reconstructive surgery after breast cancer or some other problem that causes a real need.
I’m talking about when Mummsy and Daddy buy Muffy a new set of tatas for her sixteenth birthday because she absolutely can’t go through life with a 34B bust line and she’ll just die if she doesn’t have those 38DDs. They’d be smarter to buy her a brain.
I’m talking about when Mrs. Rich Bitch decides her 40 year old bust line needs to be as perky as nineteen year olds are so her hubby doesn’t find himself another piece of arm candy. How about when Mrs. I’m So Vain’s wrinkle spackle isn’t working and she wants to Botox the hell out of her face? Oh, hell yes tax her a$$. Tax the elective procedures and use that money for good healthcare for everyone.
Boobs sag, wrinkles deepen, and one should live with it. It’s life. It’s proof you’ve lived, loved, and have experience. Get over it.
Posted on December 18, 2009, in Misc, My blog, Writer, Writing and tagged Author, Beads, Bones, books, Books on writing, Bull Terriers, Care giving, Caregiver, Coffee, comedy, Craft of writing, Crafts, Dead, Disability, Doggoned, Family, Fiction, Home, Humor, Life, Love, MS, Multiple Sclerosis, Murder, Mysteries, Mystery, Novel writing, Writer, Writing. Bookmark the permalink. 9 Comments.
Doggonedmysteries 
I just love your attitude on things I wish i could meet you in person
My cousin out in NM says I have to come out there for a book signing or two when my books sell. So, ya never know sweetie.
Absolutely!!!! Yay!!!! Seconded, and thirded and fourth..eddd!!! I often wonder what the hell we are all (well not personally) doing to the next generation.
Nice pun with the title. I personal feel that in most cases cosmetic surgery is a luxury which therefore should be taxed. If a person is receive cosmetic surgery for medical reasons or if they were horribly disfigured in a car accident or fire (or something along those lines) than they should be excluded from the tax. I agree with the post that the tax should be applied to strengthen our current health care system.
I agree! I’m 55 (just turned) and while I am not thrilled about age spots, a natural DDD bust sagging (and how!) poochy belly, etc. the question is if I started where and when would it stop???
There should be a law that you cannot get elective plastic (yeah, I said it) surgery on anyone under the age of 21yrs old. Their bodies have not totally stopped growing at 16 or 18 and breast augmentation only lasts 5-10yrs before you have to do it again so how many ($$$$) surgeries would they have in a lifetime? Just stupid. Grow up, deal with it and if you aren’t “perfect” who cares? Those that matter don’t, and those that do, don’t matter and you need to get them out of your life.
Okay, rant over. 🙂
I can understand the concept behind taxing elective surgery, but not your anger. I’ve known too many women who have had plastic surgery to try and heal the scars that incest left behind. I would agree that it would be nice if they were helped appropriately, but in our world plastic surgeons do plastic surgery. They are not there to help find the best route to quality of life. That is just one example of where the judgement calls on plastic surgery without knowing the facts is hurtful.
I couldn’t agree more. Devoted Spouse was at our dentist the other day and on his way out the dentist gave him a leaflet advertising that he now does Botox and Restylane (sp?) injections and something else cosmetic. I thought dermatologists or regular doctors did that stuff – but a Dentist??? I was shocked. I hate needles and I hate knives and cutting and so my turkey neck will have to just stay the way it is and every one of my laugh lines will stay because I came by them honestly! I’m just thankful I’m aging because I don’t like the alternative!
As I said at the end of the first paragraph, Elena I’m talking about where there is NO real need.
Procedures done on people who have a need for it, is not elective surgery. Physician recommended, psychologist or psychiatrist recommended–not elective.
Angry? Nope. Disgusted, after watching the local news cast last night and the very botoxed and implanted women complaining that a 5% federal tax on their highly elective procedures was too much. A 5% tax that would generate over 6 billion dollars that would be put towards good health care doesn’t seem unreasonable to me.
I second that idea of taxing elective surgical procedures that are not necessary, no matter if the person is under 18 or of a more “mature” mindset. People today are too caught up in “Hollywood” beauty, which btw is as fake as those implants the everyday woman pays for. But, even though using the tax for health care is a good idea, I have a feeling there would be too many fingers in the pie before it got to the health care table, if you know what I mean.