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Is it time for an abortion tax?
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While watching the health care debate I have often wondered if there is a single personal freedom that Democrats believe is too sacred for the government to regulate. The only one I could think of is abortion. For Democrats, it is apparently okay for the government to regulate every single aspect of our lives except for sex and the babies that result from it. Now, Democrats are even proposing ‘soda taxes’ and ‘junk-food taxes’ as a way to control our health care costs. Democrats think these types of taxes are perfectly fine. It’s not like they are telling people they can’t drink beer, or smoke cigarettes, or eat chips. They are just encouraging us not to consume them by making them more expensive via government taxes. After thinking long and hard about how I can illustrate to Democrats why these types of targeted sin taxes are wrong, I thought of abortion. I think the vast majority of Americans believe that abortion isn’t good. At best, it’s neutral. At worst, it’s murder. Why not ‘encourage’ fewer abortions by taxing them? I am envisioning a $10,000 tax per abortion. It won’t be a tax on individuals (so taxes won’t go up using Obama’s logic). It will be a tax on the abortion providers. If they perform 10 abortions, then they must pay $100,000 in tax. Of course we will provide tax credits for those instances of rape, incest, and when the mother’s life is in danger. So, after all the proper paperwork is filed, the doctor would get a refund for these types of abortions. All the tax money we collect would be used for sex education and birth control programs. A plan like this would reduce the number of abortions while still allowing access to the service. The government wouldn’t be anywhere near a woman’s uterus. Women could still have as many completely anonymous abortions as they wanted. What do you think Democrats? Sound like a good plan?
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