A tax on abortion?

[The Straight Story]

A tax on abortion?

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

She noted that governments routinely use tax policy to effect behavior – cigarette and liquor taxes, for example, or tax breaks designed to spur economic activity.

http://primebuzz.kcstar.com/?q=node/22236

[Oregone]

1. How do you tax something that should be free?

[PADemD]

2. Tax a medical procedure?

[ProgressiveProfessor]

4. There has been talk of taxing plastic surgery and other elective procedures

Unless its therapeutic abortion, its an elective procedure

[proud2BlibKansan]

3. That was a month and a half ago and the legislature is no longer in session

And her tax didn't get anywhere.