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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Putting the trans issue aside, there is a subset of voters who believe the government should provide period products to all women.

IMO, providing it to public schools is a baby step towards a nanny government where people expect all their  basic needs to be handed to them without any effort on their part.

This is why the Harris/Walz ticket scares me. It’s a small baby step towards bigger and bigger bloated government. [/quote]

What is wrong with you? THIS is an issue for you? Removing sexist barriers the affect poor girls and young women? Because you’re afraid of . . . What exactly? Shame on you. [/quote]

My point flew right over your head;  you are so triggered by anyone who doesn’t think in lockstep with you. [/quote]

Multiple people here have had the same reaction, so maybe you need to articulate it better. Why does providing supplies to kids in school bother you? Are you also mad about free breakfast/lunch at school? I know that’s also an issue for some on the right. What sort of work do you think poor kids should be doing to have their basic needs met in order to focus on school?[/quote]

I have no problem with feeding the hungry and providing basic necessities, never intended to say that.

I do have a problem with encouraging people to not take personal responsibility— again I am not talking about period products themselves, but where this will lead.

Thank you for not flying off the handle, lol.

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NP. Independent here. I get your point. I too am wary about how freely politicians spend taxpayer dollars. My concerns about waste are currently more focused on subsidies for agriculture and fossil fuel and military industrial complex which no one in the gop seems to think is worth controlling. Never mind the gop hypocrisy on the federal debt.

When I compare the likely cost of menstrual products, lunches and so forth for kids who have so little (and they are kids) I don’t get very upset about that use of tax dollars. I always think of the fact that Einstein was a refugee from nazi germany and how much he contributed from his new home: the United States! One or two of those kids could be another Einstein and most of the rest can be productive taxpayers.  I’d prefer to feed and educate them than incarcerate them later. YMMV[/quote]

Love when folks do a cost benefit analysis and look at the benefits a society gains from providing tampons and free/reduced brekkie/lunch v ag subsidies for one mega farmer (yeah, that's you, Grassley). [/quote]

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