I actually think they have a point and it's a disgrace that women have to pay for them

^^^gender traitor

http://www.mirror.co.uk/3am/celebrity-ne...rt-6717951

(10-27-2015, 10:22 PM)Alan Partridge Wrote: I actually think they have a point and it's a disgrace that women have to pay for them

Well I think it's been proven that there is a point, I think Labour reduced the VAT on them from the normal rate (either 17.5% or 20%) to 5%, so I don't have a problem with them being exempt. It's more the campaigning and this social media mob of '3rd wave feminists' and their shitty petitions. Still, I think there are lots of other necessities that are still taxed at the full VAT rate.

Who shouldn't women have to pay for them?

Pretty much just what they said in that Facebook post - they are a necessity of life that only woman are forced to pay for. There isn't anything comparable for men.

Free tampons for everyone. Nationalise them

They're not necessities, just bleed all over yourself - it might be miserable but they should stop being so entitled and get on with it.

/prancer

£100 food budget per month should cover them no problem.

(10-27-2015, 10:53 PM)Francis Begbie Wrote: They're not necessities, just bleed all over yourself - it might be miserable but they should stop being so entitled and get on with it.

/prancer

You heard of a mooncup?

Just looked online, you can buy 20 Tampax (big brand) tampons for £1.99 from Superdrug. If you want to buy in bulk and cheaper brands you'd probably pay less than that. Apparently you need 20 tampons for one period cycle, so that's like £1.99 a month if you're buying brand and you're doing it inefficently, meaning that the tax man is taking 10p or £1.20 off the average woman a year.

Let's double that and round up to be generous and include sanitary towels, that's £3 a year in VAT that women are charged on their necessity. Hardly going to brake the country by get rid of it, but the moral campaigning over this is ridiculous. Getting rid of the tax wouldn't reduce the cost of goods by a penny either.

Just use bog roll.

(10-27-2015, 11:00 PM)Herzog Wrote: Just use bog roll.

Can't mate, that's 20% VAT. Could start using lotto tickets though, they're exempt.

Stick a test tube up there then.

(10-27-2015, 10:57 PM)Sterling Archer Wrote: You heard of a mooncup?

If you're signing a petition against a couple of pennies of tax on your tampons, I doubt you'll be up for spending the big bucks going to the moon(cup)

(10-27-2015, 10:57 PM)Sterling Archer Wrote: You heard of a mooncup?

:what:

Just give them the tax break, fuck carrying a wee cup of claret up your fud all day. Jesus.

(10-27-2015, 11:06 PM)Donald Dank Wrote: :what:

Just give them the tax break, fuck carrying a wee cup of claret up your fud all day. Jesus.  

Think you're meant to empty it out mate, you don't just let it fill up completely.

(10-27-2015, 11:08 PM)Sterling Archer Wrote: Think you're meant to empty it out mate, you don't just let it fill up completely.

I for one am shocked that TH's biggest VL is for VAT on tampons.

(10-27-2015, 11:12 PM)Walter Sobchak Wrote: I for one am shocked that TH's biggest VL is for VAT on tampons.

Where have I said I am? Can point you to 2/3 times where I say I'm in favour or at the very least indifferent towards the exemption. It's the feminist nonsense and daft campaigning that I've taken issue with.

Anyone see this earlier?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-somerset-34650486

She should really be going to a women's prison.

(10-27-2015, 11:16 PM)Donald Dank Wrote: Where have I said I am? Can point you to 2/3 times where I say I'm in favour or at the very least indifferent towards the exemption. It's the feminist nonsense and daft campaigning that I've taken issue with.

^
Just outed himself as TH's biggest VL.