The exact same thing happened in Germany.
Starting tomorrow, taxes on fuel are lowered by 17 cents per liter.
Today, fuel prices increased by around 17 cents per liter across the board.
So tomorrow, gas stations can just revert to yesterday’s prices and pocket the tax.
Boy, am I glad we’re donating our tax money to global megacorporations, instead of, I don’t know, giving people free train tickets or building pop-up bicycle paths.
Yeah the right wing parties were going on about this in the UK the other day. Saying the government should lower fuel taxes. But everybody knows that it wouldn’t make any difference, so we might as well keep taxes where they are.
Removing fuel tax only makes sense if it comes with new maximum pricing laws.
The exact same thing happened in Germany.
Starting tomorrow, taxes on fuel are lowered by 17 cents per liter.
Today, fuel prices increased by around 17 cents per liter across the board.
So tomorrow, gas stations can just revert to yesterday’s prices and pocket the tax.
Boy, am I glad we’re donating our tax money to global megacorporations, instead of, I don’t know, giving people free train tickets or building pop-up bicycle paths.
Yeah the right wing parties were going on about this in the UK the other day. Saying the government should lower fuel taxes. But everybody knows that it wouldn’t make any difference, so we might as well keep taxes where they are.
Removing fuel tax only makes sense if it comes with new maximum pricing laws.