Sanitary items as luxuries

Thank you for understanding my initial point. I don't care if they don't agree or respect my opinion(It's not even an opinion really...).This was the point I was trying to make.

It's understandable. No one here would really understand fully what living in absolute poverty entails.
Luxury is defined as a state of great comfort especially when involving great expense.
A woman living in rural sub saharan africa would indeed be in geat comfort if she had access to a tampon that could catch all her blood flow as opposed to using a cloth or bleeding freely. And she certainly can't afford one. Even if she could something like food would be far more important on her list of priorities.

The stupidity behind your arguments.

All food is a necessity, and I could argue that I need various types of food, and therefore all food should be tax free.

There will always be items that should technically be tax free, as there will always be an item that is more important to humans that all the other taxed items. You have to stop eventually, and stopping at a point that removes luxury items, such as tampons, is one of many fair points to stop. Humans have survived for millenniums before the invention of these super tampons. Humans (well, women) just used any old cloth until very lately this mass production of these overly comfy etc etc things to help.

They should just make cheap cloth tax free, and that can be used. But I bet there would be an outrage about that. Oh no you need your super comfy version. Yet, that's blatantly luxury. Anything that gets the job done is all you need, anything beyond that is luxury.

Also I think the thing people forget is how items are chosen to be tax-free or not. It's only partly to do with how necessary they are. Things such as waste created when making them, income of firms for selling them, etc etc all are considered.

I'm sure you can live without these state of the art tampons, if the government offered free cheap cloth for everyone with a vagina I guarantee you'd all moan.

I hope I explained this angle at page 1, post 19. I wouldn't attribute it to a lack of national sovereignty. Despite being a member of the EU, I think (at the risk of starting a tangent) that Parliament's sovereignty remains intact. Indeed, its precisely because of continued national sovereignty, in part, that the EU is unable to address the tax and the other issues you've referred to; national sovereignty imposes competence limits on the EU and prohibits it from taking unilateral leadership on any issue, as, instead, reference must be made to all (or at least a qualified majority of) its members.

We don't actually lose that much blood. I believe its around 4-8 teaspoons but there's also a lot of other icky stuff to make it look like more

This is EXACTLY, EXACTLY what I was trying to say! EXACTLY what I was trying to make a point of. You have done a much better expressing it actually.

Unfortunately what is a luxury is relative from place to place.

Honestly when a controversial opinion is aired no one really wants to take the time and consider what is being said. I thought you made your point pretty clear actually.

You don't need tampons. You need something to soak up the mess, and clean it up. I.e some cloth.

True, but that is what I was trying to say. A sanitary item can certainly be defined as a luxury, perhaps not here in the west but it can/is a luxury in poverty stricken areas in 3rd world countries. Water is essential, it is a necessity, of course it is, but it's not AVAILABLE to all, making it a luxury to someone who does not have access to it.

I don't know why this was so difficult to understand?

How can national sovereignty remain intact when European Law supersedes national law?

Where was Greek national sovereignty when it voted against the terms of the bailout in a referendum , and then had to accept its imposition from the EU?

How can there be democracy in the EU without a European demos?

I remember there was a time I visited my home village. I asked for some water and I was pointed to a well. The water in it looked a bit murky :s so I asked whether there was bottled water any where and my great aunt laughed at me and called me something in my native language that roughly translates to 'rich man's child'

I'm going to step in here for @TheonlyMrsHolmes

Certain things like sanitary items, clean water and 24"7 electricity supply are definitely luxuries in third world countries. In the sense that people here can survive without clean water or electricity or sanitary items. Where I live people have developed an immunity to things like typhoid and cholera. If in a rare situation there is very clean water it is considered luxurious. In rural areas people are happy to drink the water from streams. They have to or else they'll become dehydrated. Infact sometimes people will save the clean water they have for special occasions like important guests coming over.
When there is electricity it is considered luxurious because no one is used to having stable electricity.
I'm lucky enough to be relatively middle class and I still am practically immune to malaria.

Things like clean water and sanitary pads might be basic necesities in the west but we can certainly live without them here.
Don't think of it as luxury as in versace clothes but as thingssome people are lucky to have.
Maybe luxury isn't the best word anyway

Lool, all she had to say was this, instead it was like observing an autistic child try and come to terms with Economics 101

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What if she was autistic?