[caption id="attachment_29247" align="alignleft" width="320"
caption=" "][/caption]  As Josh noted earlier, state Rep. Ross
Hunter (D-48) has proposed closing the state's $2.8 billion
budget shortfall, in part, by raising "sin taxes" on things like
cigarettes and imposing sales taxes on "luxury" items like
bottled water. Also on Hunter's hit list: Elective cosmetic
surgery, which would be subject to state sales taxes under the
plan.  Here's the problem: 91 percent of people who get cosmetic
surgery are women—many of them older women who cite the fear of
age discrimination as a primary reason for getting plastic
surgery. On average, they make just $55,000 a year. A tax on
elective cosmetic surgery, in other words, is a discriminatory
tax on women. Not just discriminatory but judgmental—the
implication being that women who get plastic surgery are making
bad, dumb decisions and deserve to be stigmatized.  It's a
classic Catch-22. Women are punished if we fail to conform to an
unrealistic ideal—namely, that we be