Beauty Tax: Should It Happen?

Ode Magazine:

Gonzalo Otólora, once a pimply teenager, has written Feosexual, an ironic book about his decision to ignore people's opinions about his looks. In his native Argentina - the country with the most beautiful women in the world, he says - his book is a bestseller.

In your book, you call for a tax on beauty. Why should people have to pay because they're attractive?

Gonzalo Otólora: "Countless studies show that good-looking people have an unfair advantage. It's easier for them to find jobs; they're paid more and find partners more easily. In a true democracy, beautiful and ugly people should be given equal opportunities. So I think we should tax the beautiful, a kind of compensation for the ugly ducklings. There are also other ways to reduce this unfair advantage."

Such as?

"In Argentina, companies are allowed to ask applicants to send in a photograph; that should be outlawed, just as the immoral practise of manipulating pictures of models in magazines and advertisements should be banned."

Read the whole story: Ode Magazine

Comments

[NoSillyName]

Is that a "before and after"?

[bushisgannonsbitch]

How about a stupidity tax? Tax the 28% who still support Bush to fix the crumbling infrastructure in this country!

[GeoNorth]

If you tax beauty, then only people with low self-esteem will pay taxes.

[LivingStardust]

Beauty is subjective, first of all. Second, a tax based on the randomness of luck at birth is possibly one of the most retarded ideas I've ever heard and I used to work in a law office full of Bushie Republicans. Best seller? Wow, my opinion of Argentina just dropped a notch.

[JScott]

I'd be exempt I'm neither beautiful nor ugly, but when they start taxing plain folk, then I'd be concerned.

[JohnhusseinCT]

Oh please don't give the socialists er democrats any new ideas.

[LivingStardust]

I think it's more appropriate to say don't give the fascist Republicans any ideas. Partisan hammerhead.