I made fun of Cameron Kasky when he shared a picture of a clear backpack full of Tampons.  His intention was obvious “annoy the uptight conservatives with feminine hygiene products because they think vaginas are oogie.”

Well Kasky decided he needed to up the level of his virtue signaling on this topic.

https://twitter.com/cameron_kasky/status/981145903162626049

How?  Fucking how, shit-for-brains teenager?

First off, how are tampons not easy to access.  Every fuck grocery store, dollar store, convenience store, gas station, and pharmacy in America sells them in one way or another.  There isn’t some restriction on them like you have go to a federally licenced tampon dealer, show ID, and fill out a form 4473 to buy a box.

Or do you mean they are just too expensive?

This kid’s grasp of economics is worse than his grasp of gun rights.

One of the basic rules of free market competition is that it drives down price.  A perfect example of this is how food costs less of a percentage of our income now that at any other point in history.  Food is so cheap in modern America that our poor die of obesity related diseases.  Less than 100 years ago, our poor would have have been dying of starvation or malnutrition.

Let me put it another way.  In 1987, a cell phone cost $3,000.  That is $3,000 in 1987 dollars.  And all it did was make phone calls.  The median household income in 1987 was $24,000.  Cell phones were for the super rich.  Today, you can buy a TracFone, for $10.  A cell phone costs less than a pair of shoes.  Sure, you can spend $800 on a new iPhone but that thing is a fucking super computer that has more processing power and digital camera technology in it than all of NASA had in 1987.

So, in America, which is still largely a free market economy for consumer goods, competition drives down costs.

I did some hunting on the internet and Dollar General sells DG (store) brand tampons for $5.50 for a 36 pack.  I have no idea how well they work or how long 36 will last, but if I assume that 36 is a single cycle supply, that is a total cost of $66/year.

Walmart sells Equate (store brand) tampons for $5.27 per 56.  Now that’s down to $31.56 per year.  Going to the high end name brand, that’s $20.35 for a 36 pack.

Sorry that woman have to buy these and men don’t.  Until you get married and your wife tosses a box of them in the grocery cart and you pay for it along with everything else because you are the breadwinner because that’s your fucking job as a man.

Life’s not fair.  That’s the first lesson of being an adult.  We all have to make choices in our life on how to spend our money on what we need.  Some of us have health problems or dietary restrictions that we have to budget for.

Guess what?  Life’s not fair.  What drives me nuts is some college Women’s Studies major bitching about the unfair price of tampons while she spends $10 a day on venti soy lattes.

But now that you’ve virtue signaled to all your female classmates just how woke you are, what is your solution?

Just how do you think you are going to disrupt the free market to make them cheaper?

Before you answer that question, ask the Venezuelans about their toilet paper shortage, and how toilet paper has become so valuable that the Venezuelan army awards soldiers for loyalty with it.

Or are your going to fight the “tampon tax?”

First of all, there is no specific tax on tampons, or any other feminine hygiene products.  Read that sentence again, just so it sinks in.  I say that because you kids are stupid and you don’t know about the laws you talk about.

The reality is in many state they are subject to sales tax like many goods.  Now it is time for a lesson in tax jargon.  A “necessity” isn’t what you think a necessity is.  Clothes are a necessity, right?  You have to wear them, you can’t go around naked.  Clothes aren’t a necessity for tax purposes in 44 states (you still pay tax on them).  Illinois taxes your prescription and OTC drugs.  You’d think that a diabetic shouldn’t be taxed on his insulin?  Illinois disagrees.

A “luxury” isn’t a luxury in tax speak either.  A luxury is anything that is not a “necessity.”  Real luxury items like jewelry, alcohol, tobacco, guns, etc. are subject to “excise” or “sin” taxes.

So when your teenage girlfriend says “tampons aren’t a luxury they shouldn’t be taxed like one.”  She’s showing the same level of knowledge about tax law as she is about the Second Amendment.  Which is to say, fuck all nothing.

Some states tax more, some tax less, but in all, there is a balance.

Here is a real discussion I had with my mom when she moved from Florida to Alabama.  She was pissed that Alabama charges a 9% sales tax on food.  Florida has no food sales tax.  Then I asked her about her property taxes.  She paid $2,000 in property taxes in Alabama.  She paid $12,000 in property taxes in Florida.  So I asked her “do you think you are going to pay $10,000 in sales tax on food this year?”  She said “of course not.”  My response was “Than overall, you paid less money.  You’re just upset that you paid more at the grocery store.”

Now I’m a low tax guy.  I agree women shouldn’t pay taxes on tampons.  But let’s not be sexist.  I don’t want to pay taxes on my anti-dandruff shampoo or fluoride mouthwash or any of my medical/grooming needs.  Lets  end all sales taxes on OTC and hygiene products.

But what is the balance?  You are cutting a revenue stream so money has to be raised somewhere else.  Where is that going to be?  What are you willing to pay more in taxes for to offset the reduction?  Or have you not thought that out either?

I know.  By “steps must be taken to make these health products easier to access” you mean’t government subsidy.  How will that work?  Are we talking about goverment price fixing?  Maybe any woman can walk into a store, flash some government issued card, and get a box for “free.”  By “free” I mean paid for with tax dollars and all the bureaucratic inefficient that goes along with it which is how you get $640 toilet seats.

Alright Hans Fritzsche Jr., what did you mean by your meaningless statement?

I know we’re supposed to take every shit-ass terrible idea you Parkland kids have as gospel from the mount, so how am I going to be inconvenienced by this?  I don’t “need” and assault rifle, so I guess I don’t “need” more of my income either?  You can just take that from my cold, dead hands too, I assume?

I can just pay for your girlfriend’s tampons so she doesn’t have to worry about having one less pumpkin spice latte per month to cover her feminine costs.  You know, like a responsible adult in the real world would do.

Or maybe you just did it to get the progressive activist chicks wet?

Can I marry Cameron Kasky cause like

— ? (@sasanahh) April 3, 2018

How about this:

Finish high school, go to college, get married, get a job, pay your income taxes, buy a house, buy a car, have a kid, then you can talk about economic issues.

As long as you are still living at home and getting an allowance from your parents, you can kindly shut the ever-loving fuck up.