An important victory for national sovereignty has gone largely unnoticed. Perhaps because the European Union bureaucracy is too worried about the coming referendum when Britain will decide to Remain in or Brexit the EU, the eurocracy finally bowed to a British demand. It seems the Brussels regulators regard women’s sanitary products as a luxury good, and therefore impose VAT of 5 percent on such products. British authorities, who unlike EU bureaucrats must some day face an electorate that includes more than a few women who believe the sanitary products they use should not be classified as luxuries and subjected to what has come to be called the Tampon Tax, have long sought to have it repealed. But Britain, being a member of the EU, requires permission from Brussels for such deference to its citizenry.
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