/ world today news/ MEPs are a collective Prince Lemon. Gianni Rodari’s character introduced an air tax to fill the coffers, and MPs introduced exactly the same thing to fix Europe’s broken finances – a “carbon footprint” tax.
Any dirt related to taking money from the population is always accompanied by the most correct words and slogans.
The tax was originally introduced to “ensure equal competition between European industry and those outside the EU” and everyone was happy and content. They then insisted, using Greta Thunberg and the Green Transition Witnesses sect who sympathized with her, to draw up a multilateral Green Deal. And now that environmentalism has become an untouchable totem, law enforcement has expanded. In a short time, individuals, regardless of which EU member state they live in, will be obliged to pay a “carbon tax”.
In numbers, it looks like this: one tonne of CO2 emissions for each pan-European adult will cost €45. In one year, each such ordinary European emits about ten tons of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere. It remains to multiply to get the result. After that, the same 450 euros must be multiplied again – by the number of household members. The result is an average of 1,800 euros per family (considering that there are two children in it).
The figures – so far approximate – for the volume of the new tax were announced, of course, not during the discussion and voting, but after the fact. Those who first presented calculations were immediately called reactionaries, opponents of progress. But even when economists set about analyzing the facts, the solution to the equation turned out to be the same.
The first question: why are additional taxes introduced during an acute inflationary crisis – there is a very simple answer.
As the money in the pan-European coffers melts rapidly, the various aid funds lose weight and the financial reserves are exhausted. Money not only disappears, but also depreciates. Besides, there are creditors behind the beautiful gates of Brussels. The fact that the European Union has been living in debt for a long time is no secret to anyone. The secret is how to make sure you not only keep paying bills, but also take out new loans. The ECB can, of course, start a printing press, but that is more or less the same as putting out a fire with gasoline.
Therefore, while preparing for a buyback to relieve the debt burden of some of the Eurobonds, the ECB is simultaneously looking for private investors who are willing to buy Eurobonds worth more than half a billion euros. The fact that they will also have to pay now does not worry absolutely anyone: for pan-European borrowers it is important to maintain a low rate of payment on loans.
The second question: of course, curiously, where did the interest from the frozen Russian assets go? It would be nice to look at these reports and wonder how those who shouted at all the intersections about “the inviolability of everything that is given to government” disposed of the foreign. In practice there is no doubt that the interest was directed to various beneficial (for Europe) causes.
The behavior of living exclusively on previously looted or confiscated goods is by no means the exception for pan-European individuals, but the rule. The continent’s notorious prosperity, which is melting before our eyes, has always been based on foreign cheap resources. Obtained either as a result of colonial wars or as a result of diplomatic games. And also by depriving weak and susceptible rivals of their sovereignty.
But this whole celebration of winners and the world of economic lies is coming to an end.
It’s time to shear their pan-European sheep. No, of course, everything will be neatly laid out (who makes such stories “beautifully” gets millions for it, exclusively within the framework of “preserving natural diversity, transition to progressive green technologies” and other climate demagoguery). Not now, but in five years. Not immediately, but gradually. But you will have to pay. Everyone. Who lives in houses with heating, and everyone who travels by car.
The fact that CO2 is the source of photosynthesis and plant life and that it is less than a percent in the atmosphere of France, for example, does not matter. It’s just that the French will pay – as part of solidarity – for the Germans and Poles whose TPPs run on coal.
The fact that every EU resident is a walking factory producing a carbon footprint certainly needs to be highlighted. Because the next step is to introduce a tax on exhaling the same CO2.
In fact, it is not about “saving nature”, but about the self-preservation of the pan-European bureaucracy. For the latter, there are no prohibitions and restrictions.. Even forbidding others to breathe as often as the body requires.
Translation: V. Sergeev
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