Letter: The flawed logic of North Dakota House Majority Leader Mike Lefor

North Dakota Home Majority Chief Mike Lefor said his purpose for supporting the diaper gross sales tax exemption is to assist younger households. I completely agree.

He didn’t, nonetheless, assist the gross sales tax exemption for female hygiene merchandise. I fail to spot how this exemption wouldn’t additionally profit younger households.

A lot of younger households have multiple feminine of child-bearing age; thereby benefiting these younger households much more. Most of us older households (empty nesters and retirees) are previous menopause so the exemptions are a mute level.

Now for my irrational answer. Let’s set up an equal tax for males from the age of 12 (onset of sperm manufacturing) to say oh the remainder of their lives as they produce some quantity of sperm and subsequently can father a toddler. Or we might make it extra equal and solely tax males from 12 to 51, the typical time females might be buying female hygiene merchandise. We might make it a month-to-month tax or a every year tax and if delinquent your looking license or driver’s license is suspended.

Or my second actually irrational answer is for females to remain pregnant, thereby avoiding the gross sales tax on female hygiene merchandise and taking FULL benefit of the diaper exemption.

Folks, when selecting your representatives, please be certain that their brains are engaged earlier than their mouths. To the ladies, please, bear in mind to query these working on these points that have an effect on your lives as girls. Become involved together with your representatives and people working for workplace. Let’s convey North Dakota into the 21^st Century.

Darlajean Harlow lives in Fargo.

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