I’m afraid you miss the point completely.

Going to the mall is elective. Let’s tax that, too.

I don’t care if you make $25K a year, or $25 million a year. BOO HOO for you!! The surgery is your choice, it isn’t being forced upon you.

As a point of comparison, the gov’t also charges huge, huge taxes on things like alcohol and cigarettes. So if 75% of beer drinkers are men, does that mean that the tax on alcohol is sexist??? C’mon people, this isn’t hard to figure out! The gov’t wants to make more money; that’s what those d-bags in Washington are there for. And they know that one of the best ways to do that is to pray on people’s vulnerabilities and addictions. And that’s precisely what they’re doing with this law.

Thanks for the comment.

This is just another attempt by the nanny state to control the markets. I don’t like it any more than I like taxes on sodas and bad foods.

Let’s face it, we all consume something that isn’t good for us. For instance, one of the worst things for kids is too much TV and video games because it makes them obese from a lack of exercise. How about we put a 5% surtax on the purchase of a 50 inch Vizio?

Thanks for visiting.

Interesting point about Viagra, but then again doesn’t that also help women?

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Effective taxes are broadly based and have a low rate…

And this tax IS sexist- as the majority of those affected WILL be women, who represent roughly 90% of those choosing aesthetic procedures.

It is also not effective (ask New Jersey), and unfair- the vast majority of my patients are working women making between $25,000 and $80,000 a year. How do they do it? They save their pennies and sometimes finance the procedure the way we all finance anything else that is important to us (cars, homes, stereo equipment).

So rather than do the right thing- the thing most other progressive nations do to balance the health care books- force healthy young people to “buy in” to the system that will eventually take care of them when they age and become ill, and limit the tremendous profits American Insurance companies are making, we’re going to increase the tax burden on young working women. Really??

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I had my tongue firmly implanted in my cheek when I suggested that the cosmetic surgery tax is sexist. I know it irks the liberals when their hypocrisy is exposed.

By the way, states already mandate that retailers collect and remit sales tax from their customers. I suppose the 5% surtax will work just like a sales tax.