Obama Pretty Sure Clueless Men Are The Reason Tampons Are Taxed As Luxury Items

[LiberalArkie]

WASHINGTON -- President Barack Obama said Friday he had "no idea" why many states tax tampons and menstrual pads as "luxury items." Well, he does have one idea.

"I suspect it's because men were making the laws when those taxes were passed," the president told Ingrid Nilsen in a series of interviews with YouTube stars in the White House.

Nilsen pointed out that 40 states require people to pay sales tax on feminine hygiene products, even though states often allow exemptions for "necessities." Tampons and pads, it turns out, are not considered a necessity in those states for sales tax purposes.

That seems wrong, Nilsen said, since she doesn't "know anyone who has a period that thinks it's a luxury."

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Change.org petition https://www.change.org/p/u-s-state-legislators-stop-taxing-our-periods-period


http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/obama-tampon-tax_569950f0e4b0778f46f94d97

[Warpy]

1. Right, men think we should make pads out of old dishrags

and stuff them with moss. Better yet, we should just disappear for a week, coming home to clean up after them while they're at work.

If men don't need it, we can't have it, either.

[HassleCat]

2. Food, too

Some states tax groceries. Eating is optional, I guess.

[DefenseLawyer]

3. Women should just go hide in the woods until God's cure has passed.

Duh.

[mountain grammy]

8. But of course..

thanks, needed that laugh..

[mwrguy]

14. They would attract bears

[DefenseLawyer]

15. No one said it would be easy. n/t

[Shrike47]

4. If women stopped using them, men might be dismayed by the result.

[lunatica]

5. Ya know, maybe there is no bottom to idiocy

[Rex]

6. Wait wait wait...how can those be luxury items!?!

Luxury items are things like diamond necklaces and jars of caviar!!

Obama telling it like it is! Clueless men indeed!

[CommonSenseDemocrat]

7. Why doesn't Obama propose a law banning the state taxing of Tampons under Interstate Commerce?

Or negotiate a budget deal with that law included?

This President has failed when it has come to implementing rhetoric into action.

[JI7]

9. these are state taxes

[CommonSenseDemocrat]

10. Tampons are sold interstate

Would pass constitutional muster

[Rex]

11. Yet if someone buys them with a credit card, it is considered interstate commerce.

Some of that money must end up in federal coffers. Personally I am STUNNED that they are considered luxury items.

[meow2u3]

12. Time for women to band together and file a tax discrimination suit

Taxing women's necessities but not men's? If that isn't an open-and-shut case of discrimination, what is?

Either you make feminine hygiene products non-taxable or start taxing men's hygiene stuff.

I'm in Pennsylvania--one of 5 states with a sales tax that doesn't tax feminine hygiene--but I stand by women in other states who fall victim to this blatantly discriminatory tax.

[progressoid]

13. He wants to push Sharia law on us!