If periods are the price women pay for the ability to make new humans, the “tampon tax” — sales tax applied to sanitary products — is the price they pay, er, because the government can make them. Just think of the taxman as a particularly audacious low-cost airline charging you to use the bathroom on a plane.
You can understand why it’s making people mad. From Australia to Italy, Malaysia to the UK, many of the countries that charge tampon tax now find themselves the targets of a growing campaign to have such levies scrapped.
So how exactly do women pay extra to have periods? And which countries make them do it? Sorry, sisters: It’s more than you might think.
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We've come a long way since using deer skins and rags. Of course, those are still options...
ReplyDeleteSoon they will tax the tax.
ReplyDeleteWhat about the razor blade tax.
ReplyDeleteI shave every day and have to pay tax on the razor blades.
Stop shaving your legs.
ReplyDeleteThe democrats initiated the tax - report that as part of the war on women!
ReplyDeleteNot in DE.
ReplyDeleteIncontinence pads are taxed too.
War on women?
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