""necessities” or “non-luxury” items are exempted from sales tax as people must buy them in order to survive. What exactly counts as a “necessity” varies state by state, but most states judge purchases like groceries to be necessities and thus make them sales-tax exempt.
As it turns out, only five states think tampons and pads are necessities. In 40 states, tampons and pads are somehow products purchased by choice, not need—a fact everyone who has ever experienced a period will likely disagree with—and remain taxed. Yet 15 states deem candy a tax-exempt necessity...
British comedians Cariad Lloyd and Jenny Bede decided a petition wasn’t quite enough. Last week, they posted their hilarious period-centric version of Taylor Swift’s “Bad Blood,” protesting the craziness of a tampon tax and brainstorming ways women can avoid having to fork over their paychecks because they happen to have periods."
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