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.
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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
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Der Fuhrer was a vego. Figures Germany would want to go full vego
I’ve got one word for you:
Bacon!
Go for it meatheads.
German politicians refilling the trough for their eco-pig donors.
Because it’s the only way to bring back the feudal system.
Have they removed their agricultural subsidies that lower the cost of meat?
15% is my limit on schnitzengruben tax
l8r
In prehistoric times CO2 was times of what it is now and life flourished.
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