If the NDP ever form government, please, someone – take me hunting.
CBC news:
Removal of GST sought for hygiene products
A Manitoba MP says it’s a tax that discriminates against women, and she wants it scrapped. Judy Wasylycia-Leis, the NDP MP for Winnipeg-North Centre, has introduced a private member’s bill, demanding that the GST not be added to the price of feminine hygiene products.
The battle has been raging for two decades.
“By what possible stretch of his mean, male-minded imagination could he impose a tax on tampons and sanitary napkins — which is a direct tax to the women of this province?” Copps, now the federal heritage minister, said in May 1982.
In 2002, the Ontario NDP urged a national campaign:
Charging GST on feminine hygiene products is a discriminatory gender tax that ought to be abolished, Ontario’s New Democrats said Friday ….
“It is an unfair tax and it is discriminatory,” said Marilyn Churley, women’s critic for Ontario’s NDP. “It taxes a bodily function that is central to womanhood and family life.”
Listen up, you stupid, stupid bitches. Our forebears did not fight for women’s suffrage so that you could stand up and embarrass us in the House Of Commons by yacking about tampons. Had they known you were going to do this, they would have returned to their kitchens and kicked off their shoes in shame.
Enough, already.
Well I am someone offended that pudding is necessary enough to be tax free but my tampon isn’t – bah!
Hm. Are lightbulbs subject to the same tax? Ant spray? Moth balls? Laundry detergents? The razors/shaving creams that men need to shave their faces every day? Jock-itch sprays? Condoms? Jock straps?
Sounds like the tax might be the problem, more than this particular application.