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Posted: Jan 24, 2017

A poster below had an entire page rant about sales tax on tampons, complaining that men don't have to pay tax on Viagra. This is "inequality."

Besides the fact that Viagra is an Rx medication and tampons are sold sans Rx, OTC in drug stores, grocery stores, etc., it occurred to me:

If the biggest "beef" that women in America have is paying the sales tax on a $2.79 box of tampons, then obviously they have it VERY GOOD in this country!

;

The usual suspects... - LOL

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I should have known that Gloria Steinem would be involved in this somehow, LOL.

Did some Googling. Thank GOD I'm not s feminist!

Apparently, the "tampon tax" has been made the hot-button issue for feminists (read: Feminist leaders and the stupid women who follow them like blind sheep).

"Cosmopolitan magazine wants the United States to stop taxing tampons. So does Gloria Steinem.

Prompted by an op-ed from Cosmo writer Prachi Gupta and a subsequent Change.org petition co-sponsored by the magazine itself which demands that U.S. legislators “Stop Taxing our Periods,” the so-called “tampon tax” has become the mainstream feminist issue du jour. On Twitter, Cosmo is lobbying hard over the tax, asking readers to tell the government that they’ve “had enough.”

Could things be any more trivial? Is this all you guys have to "march" for? The sales tax on a $3.00 box of tampons x a few per year? REALLY!?

Just WOW.

Is it any wonder the entire country is laughing their butts off at this "march?"

Libs Need a HS CIVICS Class. - States

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There is no U.S. sales tax.

ANY AND ALL sales tax paid on tampons and other consumer goods is assessed at the STATE level. That is why each STATE has its own tax rate.

Marching on Washington, D.C. to complain about STATE sales tax is not only impotent and ineffectual, it is downright RETARDED.

Doing the math.... - ROFL

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A 36-count box of Tampax Pearl tampons at my local Walgreen's (being a DRUGstore, this is on the high end) costs ~$7.00. Assuming 3 tampons per day (heavy flow), that should last ~2 months. Maybe 1.5 months, but let's stick with whole numbers.

6 x $7.00 = $42.00/year

My city's sales tax rate is 8.1%.

42 x 0.081 = $34.02.

So, liberal women thought it necessary to travel to Washington, D.C. -- or turn out locally -- to PROTEST this "government-imposed inequality." Yes, paying CITY/STATE-IMPOSED SALES TAX on a PERSONAL ITEM THAT YOU NEED is an EGREGIOUS HUMAN RIGHTS VIOLATION! Maybe they should take it up with the UN. Or take it up with Mother Nature, Gaia, God, whatever. You were born female. Deal with it.

I really don't believe that was the only thing - the women were protesting about

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but it's the stuff that the right focuses on.

Name ONE LEGAL area in the US in which women - LOL

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It was not only mentioned by Ashley Judd, but there were COUNTLESS signs of attendees addressing it. PLUS many attendees mentioned it on camera.

Read the other post, and you will see where it originated: feminist "leaders" like Gloria Steinem. I am pointing out how ASININE this "issue" is.

Please name ONE LEGAL area in which women are treated "unfairly."

Here, I'll help you out: Pay is still not equal.

THAT is the ONLY issue that women have a LEGAL beef about. It is a HUGE issue, and it is 100% legitimate!

If those women had used THAT as their platform, I would have been right there beside them! But they chose to focus on this other trivia.

Let's be honest: This was really a bash-Trump fest by a bunch of Hillary supporters who are butthurt that she lost. Everything else was secondary or even tertiary and/or a cover.

Obama did not pay his female staffers equal to men - left turns a blind eye to that

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Not only did Obama not pay his female staffers the same as men, when questioned about it, it was mentioned that females just didn't have the good paying jobs. So which is worse? Not paying your women the same as men or not promoting women just because they are women?

If these women were truly marching for equal pay they would not hold up Obama as the gold standard.

I agree this was just an anti-Trump march. Any female who was pro-life was not invited. So it seemed hypocritical to have these women bring their babies and children to a march promoting abortion.

If libs are lucky, the UN will drop genocide - LMAO

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Take your "inequality" complaints to the UN, ladies.

I'm sure they'll DROP EVERYTHING to deal with this URGENT matter! After all, what are genocide, slavery, and human trafficking compared with the INEQUALITY of paying state/city sales tax for something you bought?!

LMAO!

Tampon tax - sm

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Those women didn't think.

They are nonthinking sheep who were herded by GS and her ilk. For months pre march, they were worked up into a frenzy about the "tampon tax." As the Daily Beast reports (and blasted), the "tampon tax" mantra was drilled into their brains ad nauseum.

The logic was, "I have a vagina! I have periods. I buy tampons! I have to pay tax on those tampons! I am OUTRAGED by this GENDER INEQUALITY!"

LOL

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