Not every woman uses tampons. Not all of us always need to use tampons. For some women a pad is just fine.
Hmmmm, last I looked, I had to pay taxes for abortions.
Different kinds of taxes, but I’m still screwed because she screwed......
Soooooooooo...........
In some places, food isn’t subject to the sales tax. Having worked in accounting for a fruit and nut company, you get all kinds of arguments for “we shouldn’t be taxed!” This creates insane complexity in the sales tax code.
Peanuts? Taxed. Salted peanuts? Often not taxed. Honey peanuts? Sometimes taxed. Chocolate dipped peanuts? Almost always taxed.
Their argument for “it’s essential” will lead to the same complexity of sales tax laws. If tampons are essential, someone will argue maxi pads and diapers are. You actually have greater need for diapers since you can use menstrual cups or get a Depo Provera shot that stops most periods. Or will those be listed essentials and tax-free, too? But the denim like diapers will be taxed as luxuries and generic brands will argue Tampax with pearls are a luxury so tax the competitor.
This leads to more complexity in the tax code as everyone argues are stuff shouldn’t be taxed.
It’s un-Constitutional because ... vagina?
What about taxes on ...
shaving cream/soap?
jock straps?
prostate exams?
condoms?
If the government were to require that only men or only women had to pay a TAX OF SEVERAL HUNDRED DOLLARS A YEAR solely because of their sex...
Huh? Say what?!?! Won’t even get into the preposterous position being espoused...
That said: SEVERAL HUNDRED DOLLARS ANNUALLY?!?!
A box costs under $8.00 for a month...with a 10% tax, that is .80 x 12 = under $10 in tax annually.
SHEESH! This is what the Snowflakes are worried about?!?!
BTW, I stopped watching the movie USS Indianapolis: Men of Courage, that happened in WW2, because some of the crew was making jokes about another crew member using Tampons. I don't tolerate such mistakes in movies, Tampons were not available or widely used until the 1970's.
The ObamaCare “tax†was wonderful (and Constitutional) but this one is outrageous.Go figure!
But womens are men now, so it’s okay.
Yeah, but charging a wealth tax on people just because they have accumulated things that are worth money is totally constitutional. SMH.
How do other nations handle this.
We pay sales tax on food here in MO.
Tampons are not necessarily gender specific. Their primary design is gender specific, but they can and are used as an absorbent for severe hemeroids. No they are not inserted but placed next to the affected area.
free ford gt for all males! plus unlimited free high octane gas for life! as males, it is our inherent right!
Liberalism is the belief everyone else should be treated for your disorder.
Never mind the leftist gender prejudice, there’s a leftist who hates a tax?
Lieberals want everybody taxed to death except them, and they want to be exempt from all taxes.
Husbands should not have to pay tax on ear plugs.
Let’s see...
On the Bing search engine, one representative box of Tampax, super, 96 count, is $15.46.
At an average length of menstruation of 6 days, using 4 tampons a day, that box would last 4 months.
At 8% tax, the tax would be $1.24.
Three boxes per year would then bring the tax to $3.71.
This illustrates a few things.
First, that whoever wrote this article and those who believe it are mathematically illiterate.
Second, that the idea of exempting female hygiene items from sales tax is all about virtue signaling and not anything substantive. That $3.71 is not going to break anyone, nor is it enough to even cause one to have to make a decision between competing priorities. Or, to put it a way a leftist might understand, the yearly tax on that particular style of Tampax would not even cover the price of a single venti latte at Starbuck’s.
Men die 10 years earlier than women.
What do we tax?