“Ambulance cuts, higher EV taxes” – Yle News

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1. Unfortunately higher EV taxes are somewhat inevitable if you consider how much tax revenue gasoline and diesel cars provide. But yes it is annoying indeed.

2. It is just an ineffective governance of the country. It didn’t start yesterday, but many, many years ago.

3. I guess we know who won’t be re-elected (hopefully)

4. The funny thing of course is that the higher taxes do not generate any more revenue. We are way past the point on the Laffer curve where higher taxes start to yield overall negative gain.

   That is also completely evident from the fact that Finland is the heaviest taxed country in the developed world and also the worst economy in the developed world. But what do we do to cure that? Tax more.

   And btw, the EV tax is made even more ridiculous when it comes under disguise of “pollution tax”. Man, I pay tax on my electricity which is 100% wind generated, I pay tax on moving said electricity to my plug, and now I need to pay, what 450€? a year, for the emissions the said wind electricity generates. God damn, call it a fucking “road usage tax” or whatever but don’t, please, call it emissions tax.

   I do not even want to go to the fairness of such when I personally pay ridiculous amounts of taxes; over 25,000 income, 1500 for my house because the government thinks that my small forest plot is actually something different, and now I need to pay emissions tax on wind electricity that I have paid VAT and energy tax on.

   And now they wonder why I don’t eat in restaurants or use other services to grow the economy.

5. It is sadly quite difficult to build wealth in Finland and other high tax countries, Ofcourse if money is the only thing to consider then America would probably be the place to be ¯_(ツ)_/¯.

6. “Buying ev (even a cheap one) to save the environment” buying an ev will not save the environment lmfao they are just slightly better than normal cars, if you actually want to help ride a bike or use public transportation

7. I assume you’re meaning a higher marginal tax rate and not more tax due to working harder.

8. Stop trying to be good or being a good citizen as per the law, be good to your peers, family, friends, etc…, the role of government is to collect money for themselves to run government, the rules for governmental systems is the same, whether a democracy or a dictatorship; they are not meant for you.

   In Finland there are not much in natural resources that they can take, this means that you are the resource; you are the golden hen; and that means that it’s in the government interests that you (their golden hen) are educated and healthy so you can be productive and pay taxes.

   In Russia, they have oil; in any country there’s oil, dictatorships tend to arise, natural resources mean that the people are no longer the golden hen.

   The rules are the same, the outcome is different because circumstances are different.

   There’s no long term thinking in any case, and you have to focus on yourself; you should not expect the government to give anything to you or take anything for granted.

   You need to be two steps ahead and expect that they will do such things, stop trying to save the environment, sorry but governments put clauses in place that prevent greener societies from even existing, because those societies are more efficient less consumerist and therefore pay less tax, no democracy would want that; the game is rigged.

   Climate change is inevitable, because of government. If they really cared, they’d make insulation and some building materials completely tax free, duty free, heatpumps, and focus on light vehicles… but that reduces the treasury, they won’t do that, they’d make rules that do the opposite in order to increase revenue as much as possible, why do you think they even make a fuzz about goverment revenue, and GDP, as if that was a metric of wellbeing, it is not.

9. The current moron government makes policy based on their own trash values.

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