{"id":68601,"date":"2016-02-11T08:26:47","date_gmt":"2016-02-11T08:26:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/i\/all-male-panel-in-utah-votes-to-keep-sales-tax-on-tampons\/"},"modified":"2016-02-11T08:26:47","modified_gmt":"2016-02-11T08:26:47","slug":"all-male-panel-in-utah-votes-to-keep-sales-tax-on-tampons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/i\/all-male-panel-in-utah-votes-to-keep-sales-tax-on-tampons\/","title":{"rendered":"All-male panel in Utah votes to keep sales tax on tampons"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>        <!-- google_ad_section_start --><\/p>\n<p>SALT LAKE CITY (AP) \u00e2\u20ac\u201d A Utah committee of all-male lawmakers has voted to keep the sales tax on tampons and other feminine hygiene products despite an international push to remove it.<\/p>\n<p>Members of a taxation committee on Wednesday evening voted 8-3 against removing the tax, saying \u00e2\u20ac\u0153subjective variations\u00e2\u20ac\u009d on exemptions can make the tax system less predictable.<\/p>\n<p>Governments that make money this way penalize women for their biology, some say. At least five U.S. states and Canada have dumping taxes on such products.<\/p>\n<p>The proposal in Utah also called for making adult incontinence products and children\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s diapers tax free.<\/p>\n<ul id=\"topics\" class=\"hidden\">\n<li>Politics  Government<\/li>\n<li>Budget, Tax  Economy<\/li>\n<li>feminine hygiene products<\/li>\n<li>sales tax<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><!-- google_ad_section_end --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SALT LAKE CITY (AP) \u00e2\u20ac\u201d A Utah committee of all-male lawmakers has voted to keep the sales tax on tampons and other feminine hygiene products despite an international push to remove it. Members of a taxation committee on Wednesday evening voted 8-3 against removing the tax, saying \u00e2\u20ac\u0153subjective variations\u00e2\u20ac\u009d on exemptions can make the tax <a class=\"read-more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/i\/all-male-panel-in-utah-votes-to-keep-sales-tax-on-tampons\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-68601","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/i\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68601","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/i\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/i\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/i\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/i\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68601"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/i\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68601\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/i\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68601"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/i\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68601"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/i\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68601"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}