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“Increase in the Medicare payroll tax for those making over $250,000 a year, and a 5 percent tax on elective cosmetic procedures, already lovingly called the botax here in Washington, D.C. As you know, a number of these proposals are quite controversial, and your friends in the labor movement particularly don't like the C.dillac insurance plan tax.”
“He did, however, eliminate another proposed excise tax -- the so-called botax -- on elective cosmetic surgery "and replaced it with a tax on indoor tanning services.”
“The controversial parts are, as I understand it, mostly the ones that deal with financing insurance for the un-insured, mandating insurance for those who can afford it but choose not to have it, and some of the taxes (e.g. the 'botax' and the 'Cadillac plan' tax).”
“People were calling this "botax" you may remember.”
“A 10 percent tax on tanning was placed in the federal health care bill instead of the originally proposed 5 percent "botax," which would have taxed cosmetic surgeries.”
“But under heavy lobbying by dermatologists and plastic surgeons, the "botax" was removed and replaced by a tax on tanning salons that is projected to generate $2.7 billion over the same decade's span.”
“Early drafts of the bill had included a tax on breast implants, tummy tucks and botox injections, a so-called "botax" that would generate $5 billion over 10 years.”
“When the Democrats scrapped the "botax" for a tanning-bed tax, they argued that tanning is harmful to people's health.”
“Plastic surgeons and their patients: A 5 percent "botax" on elective cosmetic surgery such as face-lifts and tummy tucks makes it tough to transform this lump of coal into a diamond.”
“And one other change is that they're dropping the proposed tax on voluntary plastic surgery, the so-called botax.”
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Words of the year 2009
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oroboros "A Botax? Senate committee gets creative
A tax on plastic surgery, call it a "Botax", is on the table, as senators desperately try to come up with creative ways to fund $1 trillion in health care reforms."
--Fox News Nov 19, 2009