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Germany Considers a 19% Meat Tax to Combat Global Warming
wattsupwiththat.com ^ | Aug. 8, 2019 | Guest essay by Eric Worrall

Posted on 08/08/2019 3:31:19 PM PDT by PROCON

Anyone here believe that global warming zealots want to stop at 19%?

Currently meat has reduced tax rate of 7 per cent but politicians say it should increase to 19.

~~SNIP~~

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.

Read more:https://www.independent.co.uk/environment/german-meat-tax-environment-animal-welfare-a9045271.html

(Excerpt) Read more at wattsupwiththat.com ...


TOPICS: Food; Local News; Society; Weather; Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: climatechange; climatechangehoax; eussr; fakescience; germany; globalwarming; globalwarminghoax; meattax
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To: PROCON

“Let’s vote ourselves into starvation, plague and no electricity!”


21 posted on 08/08/2019 3:46:52 PM PDT by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer")
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To: eyeamok
I can’t wait to see what they say when the cooling from the recent and continuous lack of sun spots materializes in the next 2 years

They'll say, "See, our policies worked!"

And then increase the tax again.

22 posted on 08/08/2019 3:48:19 PM PDT by PROCON ('Progressive' is a Euphemism for <strike>Totalitarian</strike> COMMUNIST)
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To: PROCON

The Marxist religion. Load of sh*t.


23 posted on 08/08/2019 3:52:41 PM PDT by Vaquero ( Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you.)
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To: PROCON

They just want an excuse to tax and spend.


24 posted on 08/08/2019 3:52:52 PM PDT by aMorePerfectUnion
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To: PROCON

Advance notice of carnivorous schaudenfraude.


25 posted on 08/08/2019 3:53:45 PM PDT by blackdog
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To: PROCON

Chicken!!!


26 posted on 08/08/2019 3:53:58 PM PDT by Osage Orange (Whiskey Tango Foxtrot)
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To: PROCON

So taxes are the thermostat of the planet.

Who would have thunk it?


27 posted on 08/08/2019 3:56:31 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum ("If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.")
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To: PROCON

OK!! Everybody pay attention!
Lesson for today:
1. The sun is 1,300,000 times as big as the earth.
2. The sun is a giant nuclear furnace that controls the climates of all its planets.
3. The earth is one of the sun’s planets.
4. The earth is a speck in comparison to the size of the sun.
5. Inhabitants of the earth are less than specks.
Study Question: How do less-than-specks in congress plan to control the sun?


28 posted on 08/08/2019 3:57:41 PM PDT by abclily
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To: hoagy62
und Rumpsteak!
29 posted on 08/08/2019 3:58:38 PM PDT by sauropod (I am His and He is Mine)
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To: hoagy62
und Rumpsteak!
30 posted on 08/08/2019 3:58:45 PM PDT by sauropod (I am His and He is Mine)
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To: PROCON

The Germans needs to put a tax on stupid ideas.


31 posted on 08/08/2019 3:59:07 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer (The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money.)
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To: PROCON

Well, they could always eat bugwurst and sluggenpfeffer.


32 posted on 08/08/2019 4:01:04 PM PDT by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge.)
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To: PROCON

comrades, the 8oz per day meat ration has been raised to 5oz per day. Halal meats as always are exempt.


33 posted on 08/08/2019 4:02:22 PM PDT by redcatcherb412
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To: PROCON

It’s none of their damn business what we eat. If I want to eat lard like pudding, it’s MY business.

Nothing brings together a bunch of liberals together faster than something which is none of their damn business.


34 posted on 08/08/2019 4:07:00 PM PDT by ChildOfThe60s (If you can remember the 60s........you weren't really there)
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To: PROCON

Perhaps it should be noted that the LACK of meat in the diet, leads to gullibility and stupidity, as demonstrated here by the officials that proposed this kind of unsubstantiated idiocy.

A good counter proposal would be a complete tax ban on meat sales and tax reduction for meat farmers and importers. I suspect that proposal would get a lot more support from voters.

This also illustrates just how little concern for the economy and the wishes of the electorate the paternally inclined authoritarian European socialists have for the actual citizens of their countries. Why do they even make a proposal, just impose draconian banning of meat, as they have no accountablity?


35 posted on 08/08/2019 4:07:20 PM PDT by Richard Axtell
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To: Paladin2

About 5 years ago the Great Lakes were nearly frozen over. We had about two weeks in one month where the lows were well below zero and many days were the high was below zero.


36 posted on 08/08/2019 4:07:39 PM PDT by LukeL
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
The picture of Goebbels would really have been appropriate for this article.


37 posted on 08/08/2019 4:07:49 PM PDT by PROCON ('Progressive' is a Euphemism for <strike>Totalitarian</strike> COMMUNIST)
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To: PROCON

Well, Hitler was a vegan.


38 posted on 08/08/2019 4:11:37 PM PDT by colorado tanker
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To: PROCON

Less meat for the poor.
Sounds like a plan


39 posted on 08/08/2019 4:14:29 PM PDT by silverleaf (Age Takes a Toll: Please Have Exact Change.)
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To: eyeamok

Yep. The building Grand Solar Minimum and the resulting mini ice age will have them praying for global warming (and food and heat). How ironic will that be?


40 posted on 08/08/2019 4:19:01 PM PDT by polymuser (It's discouraging to think how many people are shocked by honesty and how few by deceit. Noel Coward)
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