Um are they not already extremely cheap, a box of tampons is like 2 euro or something
Like yes, it’s a positive move, but a weird one, why this hygiene necessity and not say toilet roll, nappies, baby milk
About bloody time
We don’t have a tax on menstrual products. The EU doesn’t allow you to charge 0 tax on products but we’re grandfathered in for a lot of stuff, menstrual products included
I do agree there’s an argument for them to be free but the whole “pink tax” thing is stupid. Both genders have individual costs the others don’t. Men have to consume 25% more food than women, that’s not “blue tax”
Strange that this was upvoted a good bit but then suddenly downvoted at 1am Irish time. I guess it’s not Irish people disagreeing with me
I’ll happily pay pink tax if they’ll bring back purple tampax
If we can’t make period products zero-VAT because of EU rules we should make them available for free.
If men needed tampons there’d be baskets of them attached to every lamp-post in the country for us to help ourselves to.
There is a very faulty logic behind the argument to make tampons/pads free. The premise being, women are being punished economically because they have periods and men do not.
As long as you don’t think about it, it seems to make sense.
But the moment you give it any amount of considered thought, the whole thing falls apart at the seams.
We should have slab larger free each year to be Langer once a year to not lisenin woman
Mad how we won’t copy Scotland on this but copied them when it came to the price of drink.
It’s like why we won’t copy Sweden on energy or prisons but we copied them on their ridiculous law on prostitutes.
We absolutely should. Some places already do something similar, I’ve seen it in the library before where there was just a box of period products in the bathroom with a sign saying “take if you need”
I mean I guess it’d be nice not to have to pay for them anymore. But why set menstrual products apart from other necessary hygiene products? Why still charge for toilet roll, say?
For everyone pointing out the cheapest options: just because there’s one available for 2-3 euros, doesn’t mean people can afford that, or use that specific period product.
I can only use the thickest Always pads. Anything else and I am in literal pain. Not sure if it’s an allergy or what and my periods are very heavy. I have to spend more.
They also have a new department to handle period products etc….they appointed a man to head it.
Can we also get face razors free aka get rid of the blue tax?
I don’t give it long until people start suing the government because they had a bad reaction to the tampons.
Amazing, even more taxes for me to pay and for something I dont even need to use
I’m never getting a house in this country I just accept it now.
Fuck removing tax. Make it free. Same with contraceptive products.
Was in Tesco earlier and noticed their own brand pads are 1 euro. Happy to be corrected but dont think they used to be that cheap and it didn’t seem to be an offer so even if it’s some corporate PR nonsense it still helps. 100% should have free options available too though.
Good on them, no one should have to feel deprived or dirty or embarrassed because of their bodily functions and not being able to afford the products they need to look after them.
I live in Scotland and have noticed sanitary towels etc being provided in public toilets, which by the way are usually spotless in the area I live. I do believe they’re maintained, and products provided, mostly by councils and community groups, but! Huge step forward. Can’t tackle everything at once but bit by bit, small changes make big changes.
This is a no brainer to me. It would be like forcing everyone to bring toilet paper with them everywhere they went if they wanted to wipe their arse
Why should the government pay for period products though? That’s just going to lead to higher taxes for everyone
It’s always worth reminding yourself that when things are dubbed “free”, that means shifting the cost to taxpayers. It does not mean that nobody pays.
What about brown tax?
Pink tax and free menstrual supplies are two completely separate things. If you don’t want to buy pink razors because they’re more expensive than the blue men’s ones, but the blue men’s ones. There’s not an equivalent example for menstrual stuff.
Wonderful but paying money for menstrual products isn’t what pink tax is
With this logic toilet paper should be legal too.
I never understood the pink tax things on toiletries. The gf and I both use what ever is cheaper men or women products. I.e razer, deodorant etc.
We don’t think these types of products should be gender based when they do the exact same thing.
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Um are they not already extremely cheap, a box of tampons is like 2 euro or something
Like yes, it’s a positive move, but a weird one, why this hygiene necessity and not say toilet roll, nappies, baby milk
About bloody time
We don’t have a tax on menstrual products. The EU doesn’t allow you to charge 0 tax on products but we’re grandfathered in for a lot of stuff, menstrual products included
I do agree there’s an argument for them to be free but the whole “pink tax” thing is stupid. Both genders have individual costs the others don’t. Men have to consume 25% more food than women, that’s not “blue tax”
Strange that this was upvoted a good bit but then suddenly downvoted at 1am Irish time. I guess it’s not Irish people disagreeing with me
I’ll happily pay pink tax if they’ll bring back purple tampax
If we can’t make period products zero-VAT because of EU rules we should make them available for free.
If men needed tampons there’d be baskets of them attached to every lamp-post in the country for us to help ourselves to.
There is a very faulty logic behind the argument to make tampons/pads free. The premise being, women are being punished economically because they have periods and men do not.
As long as you don’t think about it, it seems to make sense.
But the moment you give it any amount of considered thought, the whole thing falls apart at the seams.
We should have slab larger free each year to be Langer once a year to not lisenin woman
Mad how we won’t copy Scotland on this but copied them when it came to the price of drink.
It’s like why we won’t copy Sweden on energy or prisons but we copied them on their ridiculous law on prostitutes.
We absolutely should. Some places already do something similar, I’ve seen it in the library before where there was just a box of period products in the bathroom with a sign saying “take if you need”
I mean I guess it’d be nice not to have to pay for them anymore. But why set menstrual products apart from other necessary hygiene products? Why still charge for toilet roll, say?
For everyone pointing out the cheapest options: just because there’s one available for 2-3 euros, doesn’t mean people can afford that, or use that specific period product.
I can only use the thickest Always pads. Anything else and I am in literal pain. Not sure if it’s an allergy or what and my periods are very heavy. I have to spend more.
They also have a new department to handle period products etc….they appointed a man to head it.
Can we also get face razors free aka get rid of the blue tax?
I don’t give it long until people start suing the government because they had a bad reaction to the tampons.
Amazing, even more taxes for me to pay and for something I dont even need to use
I’m never getting a house in this country I just accept it now.
Fuck removing tax. Make it free. Same with contraceptive products.
Was in Tesco earlier and noticed their own brand pads are 1 euro. Happy to be corrected but dont think they used to be that cheap and it didn’t seem to be an offer so even if it’s some corporate PR nonsense it still helps. 100% should have free options available too though.
Good on them, no one should have to feel deprived or dirty or embarrassed because of their bodily functions and not being able to afford the products they need to look after them.
I live in Scotland and have noticed sanitary towels etc being provided in public toilets, which by the way are usually spotless in the area I live. I do believe they’re maintained, and products provided, mostly by councils and community groups, but! Huge step forward. Can’t tackle everything at once but bit by bit, small changes make big changes.
This is a no brainer to me. It would be like forcing everyone to bring toilet paper with them everywhere they went if they wanted to wipe their arse
Why should the government pay for period products though? That’s just going to lead to higher taxes for everyone
It’s always worth reminding yourself that when things are dubbed “free”, that means shifting the cost to taxpayers. It does not mean that nobody pays.
What about brown tax?
Pink tax and free menstrual supplies are two completely separate things. If you don’t want to buy pink razors because they’re more expensive than the blue men’s ones, but the blue men’s ones. There’s not an equivalent example for menstrual stuff.
Wonderful but paying money for menstrual products isn’t what pink tax is
With this logic toilet paper should be legal too.
I never understood the pink tax things on toiletries. The gf and I both use what ever is cheaper men or women products. I.e razer, deodorant etc.
We don’t think these types of products should be gender based when they do the exact same thing.
Pink tax is made up bullshit
Reading [this](https://www.insider.com/women-more-expensive-products-2018-8) I feel for women, there razors are around 11% more expensive than men’s.
So who’s paying for them then because they still cost money to make
Hardly pink tax if you need it. We all need big roll but cant see that becoming free anytime soon
No such thing as pink tax . Just buy the same products as men of they’re cheaper