Such as soap, shampoo, toothpaste and toilet paper? Would you be in favor of having all of that be free? they would likely be basic types of them all so nothing fancy but as long as it functions like they are supposed to.
No. Physical things that people get for free are easily discarded and treated as worthless. Something like UBI that means everyone can afford those basics is a better approach. And maybe get rid of liquid soaps; they're expensive water wrapped in far too much plastic.
I think there is, or was, the idea of free power for poor families in Germany. The trouble with that is that it would mean lots of flats with the windows open and heating full on. Better would be: this is what we will pay you to heat your home. If it actually costs less, you get to keep (a percentage of) the difference (for people on social benefits). You can bet that people would find ways to save on heating then.
Maybe. But make it means-tested, and their production would have to be nationalised as well - just throwing taxpayer's money at private businesses to have them supply the products, would be a disaster (see: the railways, energy, telecoms, the postal service, prisons, etc).
Being daughter of a businessman, this sounds like a terrible idea. Yeah you can remove taxes, that way products would be way cheaper and will bring great profit as well (since sellers wouldn't have to pay tax for the stock as well). If you are talking about making it totally free, then all the entrepreneurs of these product company and the sellers will go broke and yeah you can't get them anymore since there wouldn't be anymore production. Removing taxes is a great idea since govt. already taxes us a lot and it won't harm to remove taxes for daily use products, they would be way more cheaper (almost free) and more profitable per stock for the sellers.
Maybe just the ones that are absolutely necessary like toothpaste, deodorant, and feminine products (pads, tampons, etc.). Other ones like listerine and razors could be low cost. Everything shouldn't be free.
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u Oh good grief, this again.
My question is, who’s going to plant and harvest the orchards of money trees that will be needed to pay for all this “free” stuff?
Tax monies are not an option.
The issue of so called hygiene poverty has been raised in the UK particularly around children by schools. There are hygiene banks you can donate cleaning products to.
I'm not convinced people can't afford them, they cost pennies. But I don't think kids should suffer because mum would rather buy smokes and beer than her kid toothpaste. It's not the child's fault so I'd be happy to see free toiletries in schools.
No. Nothing that requires the labor or resources of another is free, so this will requires more taxes and more bloat in already far to large government.
But if you set up a site for the purpose I will gladly freely donate my resources to it.
I don’t know, everyone’s talking about making everything free now and it’s sort of starting to sound unreasonable. Why not just make things with exorbitant prices a wee lower. Like uh…… deodorant, yeah. We went to Walmart yesterday and some of them were $6 for ONE, not a pack, ONE. that’s what I call unreasonable. Obviously everyone would like free everything but that’s ridiculous
I can't vote. What I struggle with is who pays? And should the person who has no kids fund the toiletries for the family with six kids? This is an interesting concept but a potentially minefieldish idea.
Any organization needs to charge at least 5 cents or 10 cents in total for all the items for the people to actually value them.
They wouldn't be free. Some where some how they have to be paid for. Think higher tax dollars & I already pay more then enough taxes.
Not free as in you can go to the store and take as many as you want, but would support a Medicare 4 All Plan that covers those items.
Absolutely!!
And to pay for then raise the price of some luxurious a bit to offset the cost
yes anything needed for basic health should be free,,,
Who's paying for it, my tax dollars or Jesus? It's not free.
Free sounds good to me lol
Omg yes, especially period products!
Yes, I'm in favor of making all those free!
Heck yeah!!
Nope.
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