Germany weighs tax on alcohol, chocolate, and hang gliding

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Germany weighs tax on alcohol, chocolate, and hang gliding

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http://www.aolnews.com/world/article/ge ... e/19566425

[...Health economist Jurgen Wasem called for Germany to tackle the problem of fattening snacks in order to raise money and reduce obesity.

"One should, as with tobacco, tax the purchase of unhealthy consumer goods at a higher rate and partly maintain the health system," Wasem said, according to Germany's English-language newspaper The Local. "That applies to alcohol, chocolate or risky sporting equipment such as hang-gliders."..]

All the German overweight, beer drinking,chocolate eating, hang glider pilots can seek political asylum in the United States(Sylmar).

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as long as they don't do anything dangerous, like walk a baby slackline, in our l/z!
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Or fly a LiteSport like Max ! :?
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Don if I would fly lightsport in Germany I would probably pay triple tax and if the glider would be yours I would have to quit Hang gliding, there is no way that I could afford the tax. :D
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