Kees van der Leun
In response to the growing global kerosene shortage, German government now plans to lower the taxes on air tickets 🤦🤦‍♂️🤦‍♀️
Fortunately, the taxes are ridiculously low, so this won't do much direct harm. But it's of course totally the wrong signal to give.
https://www.tagesschau.de/inland/innenpolitik/luftverkehr-steuer-ticketpreis-100.html
Bundesregierung will Luftverkehrssteuer wegen teurer Flüge senken

Für Flüge aus Deutschland soll von Juli an eine niedrigere Ticketsteuer gelten. CDU, CSU und SPD lösen damit ein Versprechen aus ihrem Koalitionsvertrag ein. Die Preise dürften allerdings kaum fallen.

tagesschau.de
Apr 1 at 9:03pmWeb
Show threadJanne1d ago
@Sustainable2050 wowz, they really want to increase demand by lowering prices? Not very clever of them.
Show threadKees van der Leun1d ago
@janvenetor Deeply stupid, one might say.
Show threadMartijn Vos1d ago

@Sustainable2050

Air tickets? That's the absolute worst choice. Reducing taxes on petrol for cars I might be able to understand, but air travel needs to be discouraged, doubly so in times of fuel shortage.

Show threadHorst Storkebaum1d ago
@Sustainable2050
You can't make this shit up. Oh wait, it's April 1st.
Show threadFabian Kern  1d ago
@Sustainable2050 "Die Auswirkung auf die Ticketpreise ist jedoch fragwürdig. Das Finanzministerium betonte zwar, ihm sei wichtig, "dass die Senkungen an die Reisenden weitergegeben werden". Doch zwingen kann die Regierung sie nicht. "
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Show threadJustin Scholz1d ago
@Sustainable2050 that is misreporting - they had already agreed roughly a year ago to lower this tax as they perceive it as too high in Europe to compete. Unrelated to the current shortage.
Show threadBenjamin Knispel1d ago
@Sustainable2050 This has nothing to do with the growing global kerosene shortage. This was something the current government has been planning to do for a longer time as it was part of the coalition agreement between the two governing parties.
Show threadKees van der Leun1d ago
@benknispel OK thanks for that background. Then it's just plain stupid, and very bad timing now.
Show threadBenjamin Knispel1d ago
@Sustainable2050 Yes.
Show threadProScience 🇪🇺1d ago

@Sustainable2050

The actions of these de facto climate crisis denying fascists are perfectly reasonable if you consider them working for the #HeritageFoundation:

There's next to nothing that's not in line with an adapted #Project2025.

#NotMyGovernment

Show threadHeiko Rupp1d ago
@Sustainable2050 @isotopp Sounds logical. Our chancellor would not be able to afford to fly his private aircraft otherwise … 
Show thread☢️ Waschbär ☢️1d ago

@Sustainable2050

Yup I really don't how they imagine this going. "Damn that stuff is short on supply and we also need for crucial infrastructure. Great then let's make it cheaper so everyone can afford it."

Like how on earth do you overcome a shortage by making the stuff even MORE available?! In what economy does this work, even by cold capitalist standards that is so incredibly stupid.

Show threadsolarpunk924214h ago
@Sustainable2050 Instead, public transport could be made cheaper. I currently pay 63 euros for my Germany ticket.