Through human history, the basic standard of well-being has been the ability to afford an adequate diet, especially one that includes animal protein.
But, in classic first-world style, some German politicians have decided that Germans eat “too much” meat.
Hence a campaign to raise taxes on meat: “Green tax on sausages a step too far for Germans.”
Germany has raised the prospect of imposing a hefty tax on meat to encourage carnivores to cut down on their consumption.
This week MPs from the ruling parties flirted with abolishing meat’s special status in the tax system and nearly trebling the levy on each product to 19 per cent.
A 19 percent tax on meat!
Alongside staples such as bread, milk and coffee, Germany levies only a 7 per cent VAT rate on meat products, while charging 19 per cent VAT on baby food, restaurant meals and mineral water.
Earlier this week MPs floated the idea of moving meat into the more expensive category, in effect indicating that it is more of a luxury than an indispensable foodstuff.
I think most of us would agree that meat is indispensable. Most Germans apparently agree:
The meat tax was abandoned yesterday as the leaders of the mainstream parties fretted that it could become politically toxic and difficult to administer in Germany’s highly devolved federal structure.
The fundamental question, of course, is: what right do politicians and bureaucrats have to tell the rest of us we are eating “too much” meat so that the price should be inflated via taxation?
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Leave it to the Big Spenders to dream up more reasons to raise taxes on food. They know it won’t stifle consumption. Same with fossil fuels.
Why won’t the Socialists admit that they need more revenue to pay the interest on the borrowings they use to buy votes?
Just admit it. Socialists need new revenue streams to pay the interest on the money they borrow to buy votes. Free stuff? Not so fast. They know that taxes won’t stifle consumption. Taxes haven’t slowed the demand for energy, either.
Finally a bridge to far . You tax the meat you take the heat .
Hasn’t the German population been abused enough ?
Whats next a cow fart tax ?
Want to see the krauts really get angry ?
Impose and a beer and schnapps tax.
E Z – J P ! Only us krauts can use the “K” bomb.
If I may — and it’s just a suggestion: “Keep your words soft and sweet, you never know when you might have to eat them”.
Apologies Sonny – nothing personal towards either of you – but the two comments seemed a reasonable spot to get the message out. I deplore the use of derogatory words such as ‘stupid’ and others, they add nothing to a conversation.
Those Germans just don’t want no stupid tax to solve a fake crisis they can see through the Some and Mirrors of a scam
The fundamental question, of course, is: what right do politicians and bureaucrats have to tell the rest of us we are eating “too much” meat so that the price should be inflated via taxation?
No, the question is:
What to do with the politicians and bureaucrats who tell the rest of us we are eating “too much” meat.