Women should have healthy and clean tampons for $1 a dozen or free. This is a natural process they go through and she be a obligation to free or a $1 charge for natural products for the body.
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You would do better to say
Provide at cost plus a nominal profit not to exceed ten percent of manufacturing cost.
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This is no business for federal government to be involved in. Hard pass.
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the same idea applies to many other products. food, clothes, energy⌠are basic products we need to live.
federal government should not price single products, but create circunstances so all basic products are affordable
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Well. With that logic. I guess anything naturally occurring should be free or $1 a dozen. Like, $1 de*th tax a dozen
I agree. However, I would be in favor of having menstrual care part of insurance drug programs, treated as medicine, therefore tax free, and part valid for HSA.
I am also in favor of menstrual products and personal care products like soap, toothpaste, and home cleaning to be covered uder EBT.
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Its already covered in FSA and HSA
Thatâs fair. What about including them in the EBT programs and making them tax free?
Pass. Nothing is free, someone has to pay for it. All taxpayers?? No. Better off with making the manufacturer be transparent with the process of making the product. Then women would stop buying them all together.
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The federal government shouldnât be regulating free market trade.
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there is no market without government.
there are not many really free markets.
even the most humble market needs some agreements about time, place, measures, weights, currencies; usually some quality standards are established and enforced; someone needs to make sure the market is safe, so businesspeople as well as clients can sell and buy at their leisure. which implies some form of government.
a completely free market implies, too, that the client is free to buy nothing, at all, if what the businesses provide is not to her liking. this is not true for articles of basic needs, like groceries, health related services, hygiene articles. agreements between businesses can lead to the situation that overpriced things of bad quality are sold, and the client has no choice but to buy these. itâs governments job to stop such monopolies and similar corporate structures. a completely âfreeâ market will be eventually dominated by corporations which will not allow any competition.
Disagree with everything you said⌠what did people do before âgovernment? Thrived⌠without interference. Self governance was the norm until some fat cat wanted to take control and make themselves rich. Most of the population is spoiled into thinking they canât live without âstuffâ⌠youâd be amazed how well you do within material possessions when they are not readily available. Thatâs what drives innovation and self reliance.
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We have some sort of government and hierachy even in very basic societies like stone age style tribes. if you like a very simple life with a lot of hardships, go for it!
but in the very moment you want to trade - exchange things for more comfort, a better life - some sort of government will be created. it is inavoidable.
and if you want full civilization, with objects like indoor plumbing and smartphones, thousands of people need to be organized and work together, else such objects will never exist.
No. The company that makes them have a right to make a profit. If you take away their profit, they will stop making them and you will be back to washing RAGS!!!
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We have (âmostlyâ â for Barbs) a free market economy, with open competition and constant price discovery that keep prices as low as possible while keeping businesses functioning. Letâs not ask the government to intervene where it does not âmostlyâ belong. The govt playbook is as predictable as the rising and setting sun â it starts with tampon cost control and then invariably ends up with the government deciding to euthanize you to control the cost of tampon subsidies. Yes, govts are THAT dumb, cold, ridiculous, calculating and controlling (we should be well aware of that by now).
Govts should be seen as dangerous guard dogs: they are good when they are tied up next to your door, guarding your entrance, but they can and will turn on you in a heartbeat when you untie them and welcome them into your house. Keep all govts tiny and tied up on the shortest possible chain. Careful what you wish for. Moral of the story: âKeep your guard dog away from your tampons.â 
I doubt that people who reference âfree market economiesâ in these posts are advocating anarchy. Sounds a bit nit-picky and derailing doesnât it? 80%-90% free market with reasonable regulations on monopolies etc. can still be considered a âfree market economyâ to most people (vs. a failed Soviet Union economy) donât you think?
The whole purpose of bringing up the term is to convey natural market forces at play and how it might impact the policy proposal. Ignoring that and starting another convo about how/why govts should exist, tends to drop the entire intended context of the author and steer the audience out into the weeds on an irrelavent topic. Seems a bit petty and misleading to focus on 10% of a missing pie, rather than the 90% that is still in the pan, right? 
No one should depend on âfreeâ stuff from the government.
If you want to be able to write it off on your taxes, maybe I am ok with that. I have no problem with people keeping more of their money.
Capitalism means that the corporations try to control the government. Communism means that the government tries to control the corporations. in the end, in both systems you get very similar outcomes. none of them pleasant.
both are based on industrial mass production.
Tampons are a simple product - if just market forces were at play, they would need to be very cheap. but they are not.
as this happens in the USA, itâs probably a good idea to check out if the big producers use a monopoly position to overprice them, generating unjust profits on the back of the client.
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We agree. And that is where monopolistic regulatory practices get to flex its controlling hand and look for collusion, artificial price fixing, and market domination within the product lines. Its time to let loose the hounds of justice. 
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Frankly, they should SCRAP taxes ANYWAY, but food and hygiene products should DEFINITELY be tax free! As for price controls, etc, FORGET THAT! EVERYWHERE it is tried, THE PRICE GOES UP!!!
BTW Tampons are, more properly HYGIENE products! Razors and soap, etc⌠are ALSO! Face it, women CAN go without things like tampons. They just wouldnât be as hygienic, or comfortable.