Guest essay by Eric Worrall
Anyone here believe that global warming zealots want to stop at 19%?
Germany may introduce ‘meat tax’ to protect the environment
Currently meat has reduced tax rate of 7 per cent but politicians say it should increase to 19
Phoebe Weston Science Correspondent @phoeb0
1 day ago
Germany could introduce a “meat tax” to protect the climate and improve animal welfare.Currently meat in the country has a reduced tax rate of seven per cent but the Social Democrat party and the Greens are arguing that this should increase to the standard 19 per cent, with additional revenue spent on improving animal welfare.
“I am in favour of abolishing the VAT reduction for meat and earmarking it for more animal welfare,” Friedrich Ostendorf, agricultural policy spokesperson for the Greens told The Local website.
He said it mad “no sense” that meat was taxed at seven per cent while oat milk is taxed at 19 per cent.
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Read more: https://www.independent.co.uk/environment/german-meat-tax-environment-animal-welfare-a9045271.html
While most people think of Germans as wealthy, there is a lot of poverty in Germany. According to a DW article in 2018, around 20% of Germans are struggling to pay their bills and heat their homes. This new meat tax if passed will simply add to their already intolerable burden.
Its a great way to greenwash a new tax revenue stream.
This is nothing more than then an elite (in their own mind) trying to enforce a moral standard (CO2 bad, Obesity bad, eating animals bad) on a governed people. If the governed people do not stop it, then they de-facto agree to it.
The problem is of course, its all a lie. It won’t affect CO2 in the least, it won’t stop people from being obese (which is at least partially genetic), and it will not help the state of farm animals as they just will no longer be breed (in Germany).
Why the moral elite (so they think of themselves) can’t leave other people alone is just a mystery. I guess unless everyone is forced to behave the way the moral elite profess to behave, then it bothers them. Kind of like a religion – convert or be persecuted.
In 1492, North America was home to 30 to 60 million bison and at least tens of millions of other ruminants. Today the USA and Canada have about 107 million cattle. While white tail deer numbers might have increased, large members of the deer family, such as “elk” and moose, have declined since Pre-Columbian times. The range of caribou has shrunk. Hard to say what the net effect of development has been on mule deer. Wild sheep, “goats” and “antelope” declines have perhaps been offset by domestic relatives.
OTOH, the number of CO2- and CH4-producing humans has grown many-fold, even using the highest estimates for pre-contact population.
So the regnant German political parties (the CDU, the Left, the Greens, etc) are rapidly losing ground to the resurgent nationalist right, and they think this is the perfect time to introduce a policy that will enrage 95% of Germans?
Rumours of the intelligence of political strategists have been greatly exaggerated.
Let’s see how much Germans are willing to bear. I just imagine your regular German turning up at the local supermarket to see that his favored Weißwurst has become even more expensive overnight. This is not some windmills, this is not some fancy schemes they pay for – this is their guts and belly and I have a hard time believing that they will take it for long. How long for an opposition party to find out that there are votes up for grabs at the next election for the party that wants to repeal it. Arrogance breeds its own demise.
..How did that “Let them eat cake !” thingy work out last time ?
Since the election of President Trump, the left (worldwide) seems to be doing a political “Kamikaze” ! Absolute self destruction.