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Where tax goes: fish farms and frog tunnels (Germany)
TheLocal.de ^ | 09 Oct 2014 08:00 GMT+02:00

Posted on 10/09/2014 9:23:27 AM PDT by Olog-hai

This year the Taxpayers’ Alliance (BdS) has focused on unprofitable businesses run by local governments in its annual “Black Book” of government waste—but still found space to name and shame some of the biggest money sinks in Germany. […]

The BdS is campaigning for local administrations to limit themselves to infrastructure and basic services for their citizens in local ventures, rather than some of the luxury offerings including cinemas and spas from certain communes.

That’s businesses like a saltwater fish farm in the Saarland, 600 kilometers from the sea, and a loss-making publicly-owned vineyard are in the organization’s sights.

But the BdS has also targeted big-budget projects like the Berlin State Opera and the Hamburg planetarium. …

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Germany; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: eussr; governmentwaste; socialmarketeconomy; taxpayersalliance
The frog tunnel is the ninth photo in the photo gallery; the first pic in there is the big noise barrier that doesn’t work (glass “tunnel” cover) over the A1 highway in Köln.
1 posted on 10/09/2014 9:23:27 AM PDT by Olog-hai
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To: Olog-hai

Fish farms and fish ponds are a big thing in Southern Germany.

Way back in the 1960’s (4 Marks to the $) I remember having lunch at a rustic restaurant overlooking a small lake filled with trout.

Their most important plate was served with local forest mushrooms and “Forellen Blau” or “Forellen Hausfrau Art”. Both smothered in locally churned butter and washed down with the local white wine. As an uncouth American I also ordered the local “Helles Bier”.

Man, I could’ve stayed there much longer.


2 posted on 10/09/2014 10:27:34 AM PDT by 353FMG
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To: 353FMG

Were they subsidized like these modern ones are?


3 posted on 10/10/2014 6:14:18 AM PDT by Olog-hai
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To: Olog-hai

I remember when I was stationed in West Germany there was a rural stretch of road with numerous ponds on both sides. Connecting the ponds were frog tunnels under the road plus a frog warning sign.


4 posted on 10/10/2014 7:17:53 AM PDT by ops33 (Senior Master Sergeant, USAF (Retired))
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To: ops33

Plenty of toads on the roads where I live, but no tunnels. Amphibians lay lots of eggs (20,000+ in one season) and replenish their numbers rather quickly.


5 posted on 10/10/2014 7:28:36 AM PDT by Olog-hai
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To: ops33

Those myriads of eggs are laid per individual frog, too.


6 posted on 10/10/2014 7:32:06 AM PDT by Olog-hai
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To: Olog-hai

Yes, by me and others who enjoyed great meals in quiet surroundings.


7 posted on 10/10/2014 3:46:25 PM PDT by 353FMG
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