ofercrisakeMake Toilet Paper tax exempt....................
This issue has been floating around the State for about five years. At one point the backers even wanted feminine Hygiene products to be “free”.
Nevada has a sales tax?
I thought gambling brought in so much money, that’s Nevada didn’t have income and sales tax? Clearly I was wrong.......
What about bandaids, condoms and kleenex? How about lollipops for those who need a sugar boost?
Always vote to lower or eliminate taxes.
ofercrisakeHow about make everything tax exempt? Fair for everyone.
Quite Frankly, I do see any problem with getting rid of the sales tax for women’s products. In a sense, it is a medical product. Women of a certain range of age are required to purchase the products to prevent a biological situation. Of course, toilet paper should also be tax free too.
So that’s less than $1.30 in tax per month in savings per female. Assuming an average of $20 worth of products which is more than what my wife asks me to get for her.
This isn’t a bloody big deal, as the Brits might say.
It’s the principle of the thing. They are necessary. But so are many OTC medications. Who to tax?
How much do women spend each month on tampons and pads? How much money would they save if they didn’t pay the 6.85% tax? $2 per month?
Men’s razors and shaving cream should be tax exempt, too.
The reasonableness of this proposal depends on what else is tax exempt. This isn’t strictly a woman’s issue. How many men are paying for their wife’s or their daughters’ feminine care items and would benefit from the tax savings?
49.5% of the population of Nevada are women of child bearing age? snort...
“Nevada sales tax is avg 6.85%. Medical items are exempt, except feminine hygiene products needed monthly (tampons and pads”.
Even if the tampons are to be used as earrings?
Your 49.5% number is totally wrong.
You are not leaving out those of us too old to need such products or those in the state TOO young to need them.
This state has a high number of retired people-— I don’t know a single retired woman here who needs any of these products any more. Perhaps Depends or bladder leak products-—but NOT tampons.
If this passes, the women libbers will want free tampons, pads and special panties for those special days.
:: feminine hygiene products needed monthly (tampons and pads) by 49.5% of population in Nevada ::
That percentage makes this “fakery”.
it’s a stupid platform plank, but let’s be honest, guys. Women cannot opt out of having ‘that time of month’. And the days are gone when women were expected to use rags, just as the days are gone when women were expected to use cloth diapers for babies and adult incontinents (seen a diaper service truck lately?).
Remove the tax from tampons, pads, diapers (baby and adult) and toilet paper. It’s not ww2 and we’re not rationing paper products any more. Make up the tax on paper plates or red solo cups if you will, but we need to be sensible about personal hygiene products.