As you probably know by now, the health care overhaul legislation being pushed through the United States Senate contains a cosmetic tax — one that raises taxes on cosmetic surgery.

Liberals apparently figure that raising taxes on such procedures is okey dokey because the rich — already taxed up the wazoo and yet expected to invest in American companies and create more jobs — would be the only people impacted.

Liberals would be wrong.

Cosmetic surgery is now primarily consumed not by the rich, but by the working and lower-middle classes, sometimes even by the poor. According to the American Society for Aesthetic Plastic Surgery (ASAPS), about 1/3 of cosmetic surgery is consumed by people who make less than $30,000 a year. About 70% of it is consumed by people who make less than $60,000 a year. It is mostly women (90%) and mostly white, middle-aged women (80% and between 35-55 years old).

So the increased taxes would mostly impact working class, middle-aged women between the ages of 35 and 55-years-old.

It’s a tax increase on services purchased by the middle class. You can argue that cosmetic surgery is unnecessary (wrongly in many cases), but the fact of the matter is the tax will impact the middle class — not the perennially-targeted wealthy.