• Cevilia (they/she/…)@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    4 months ago

    Abolish all forms of taxation except VAT. Make more essential goods and services VAT exempt. Then crank the rate of VAT sky-high for luxury goods and services. Make it a truly unavoidable Luxury Tax. If the 1% want their excesses, they can afford to pay 175% VAT on them (or whatever number balances the books).

    Oh sorry I forgot where I was for a second.

    I’d devalue coins by 1p and abolish the penny. If shops wanna charge £7.99 for something, they can work out the damn change from eight 99p coins.

  • Saleh@feddit.orgOP
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    2 years ago

    Unfortunately international media is not capturing the gravity of the German government winding around and refusing to say they abide by the ICC decision.

    Here is todays gov. press conference in German. Maybe Youtube provides auto-translation. I think the faces and the way they talk can be understood even without knowing German.

    https://youtube.com/watch?v=NRl3X5nN4R4

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      2 years ago

      Thanks for linking to the video. There is an auto translate option for it buried deep in the CC settings (at least there was for me).

      My impression that I was left with is that the guy speaking is basically panicking because he doesn’t want to look bad.

      My reaction is “Good. Let the bastards squirm!”

      The German government has gone out of their way to silence any opposition to genocide. Fear of looking like a Nazi is the closest they will come to self awareness.

  • raspberriesareyummy@lemmy.world
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    2 years ago

    As a German, this seems like a cruel joke to me - “Because of our Nazi history, we are committed to protecting against an ICC warrant the person currently performing a genocide, establishing camps to “concentrate” refugees and then even bombing said camps”.

    Fuck our government. This is about a war criminal and in my opinion it’s absolutely furthering antisemitism to allow the Israeli government to continue these atrocities. The best way to reduce antisemitism is to have the Israeli government commit less atrocities.