Op-Ed: Taxing tampons isn’t just unfair, it’s unconstitutional

By Erwin Chemerinsky, Jennifer Weiss-Wolf

If the government were to require that only men or only women had to pay a tax of several hundred dollars a year solely because of their sex, that would be an unconstitutional denial of equal protection under the 14th Amendment. Yet that is exactly the effect of the so-called tampon tax…

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