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Tennessee Republicans worry women will go on tampon-buying frenzy
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| Contributor | RP |
| Last Edited | RP Feb 14, 2020 06:40am |
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| Author | Arwa Mahdawi |
| News Date | Friday, February 14, 2020 11:00:00 AM UTC0:0 |
| Description | Women can’t be trusted around tax-free tampons. If you cut the price of menstrual products they’re bound to go tampon-mad and buy boxes of the stuff, just for the hell of it. They’d line their walls with super-plus, they’d polish their floors with pads; it would be absolute bedlam.
That appears to be what Republicans in Tennessee think anyway. On Tuesday GOP lawmakers pushed back against a proposal that would include sanitary products in Tennessee’s annual sales-tax holiday. The three-day event, held at the end of July, allows shoppers to buy items like computers and clothing without paying the usual 7% state sales tax.
Hensely’s legislative assistant later explained that his questions were prompted by concerns “that the possibility of people purchasing large quantities had not been factored in when determining the cost of the legislation”. One would not want Tennessee to be bankrupted by residents bulk-buying tampons, after all. |
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