A tax on abortion?

[proud2BlibKansan]

TOPEKA | Lawmakers anxious to avoid a general tax increase have offered several creative alternatives raising revenue.

Some say the state could sell some of its buildings and land. Others suggest going after tax cheats and Medicaid fraudsters, privatizing services, or raising the court fees for criminals.

But Sen. Mary Pilcher Cook may have just offered the most unique idea so far: impose a sales tax on abortion.

Pilcher Cook, a Shawnee Republican, offered the idea as an amendment today as the Senate debates a 1-cent sales tax increase. Her amendment would also decrease the proposed sales tax hike to .9 cents.

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[bluestateguy]

1. I am assuming Grover Norquist wll oppose this

nt

[proud2BlibKansan]

2. Good point!!

[Zoeisright]

3. That's right, penalize poor women more already.

I hate these fucking repukes. Mine your own fucking business, Pilcher.

[proud2BlibKansan]

4. Like the tax is going to keep a woman from having an abortion?

This is just silly pandering.

PilcherCook is a freakin moron.

[csziggy]

5. Unless there is an equivalent tax on some health service for men

I could see this going to court - if the Kansas legislature is stupid enough to pass it and the governor idiotic enough to sign it.

Why not just put a tax on all forms of birth control? Or those little blue pills?

[proud2BlibKansan]

6. The governor would never sign it

He's a good Democrat.

[ProgressiveProfessor]

7. Its an excellent reducto ad absurdum of using taxes to motivate behavior

which is what sin taxes are.

It would be more defensible if it a sales tax on elective surgeries, though are still predominately done on women.

[proud2BlibKansan]

8. Paying the tax would still cost less than raising the child

[ProgressiveProfessor]

9. True, but sin taxes are fundementally counter productive in the long run, including this one

[The Straight Story]

10. Tax condoms too. Smokes. Beer. Soda. Everything except yachts, luxury cars, etc (nt)

[spanone]

11. tax churches/religion, now there's some dough

[The Straight Story]

12. "I'll tax anything that moves, and even things that don't"

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[proud2BlibKansan]

13. LOL