There's a fair amount of chatter this campaign season (building up to the September national election) in Germany.
So one of the top five 'hypes' is C02 sins, and how you need to focus on your business.
One of the questions asked by Germans....just how much are you expecting me and my family to contribute to the C02 sin 'bucket'?
Well, I noticed via N-TV this morning....a brief talk by the Green Party Chancellor candidate (Baerbock) over this, but avoiding the real cost, and simply hinting that regular Germans would get a 'free bit' of money to compensate for their C02 sin situation.
The amount suggested? 75 Euro per person. Three member family? 225 Euro. A single guy? 75 Euro.
According to N-TV....the number often discussed (in some weird descriptive way) is that a rural German family would be paying around 100 Euro a year. Where the hundred Euro 'idea' comes from? That's really clear, and I suspect it's a number passed around Green Party circles. One odd thing stands out.....100 is such a nice round number....that it sound convincible but fake.
By suggesting that a 3-person family would lose a hundred but gain 225 Euro....would make folks happy. You'd start to plan plan the spending of the 125 left-over Euro (maybe a day-trip to a zoo, or family situation at some local circus).
The real amount? Unknown. Where the 'gift' money would come from? Well....logically, taxes would have to increase, or the standard pricing for things would go up to make up for the C02 tax business.
If it came out a year into the agenda....that general prices for things escalated 30-percent? Like the delivery of grocery items to your local grocery shop required C02 usage and they passed the cost onto you the consumer? It would seem that a whole new 'gift' amount (way more than the 75 Euro per person) would have to be figured up, and you'd probably get 400 Euro a year per person. Then the whole thing escalate year after year because no one would hinder or halt C02.
Yeah, it's possible that you'd wake up ten years in the future....getting a check of 2,500 Euro a year per person to compensate you for C02 costs, but still be out of another 500 Euro a year on your own.
As silly as it sounds....it just seems like some idiot could find another way of saving the Earth and humanity, without taxes or 'gifting'.
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