EU Preparing to Impose First Federal Tax

In a flexing of its federal muscle the European Union (EU) is reported as drawing up plans for its first direct tax with proposals expected to be announced next month that will provide the United States of Europe with its first funding derived from direct taxation.

Although many people are ignorant of the fact the EU has appointed a “commissioner for taxation” who is said to be planning a “minimum rate of tax on carbon” to be imposed across the federal union.

Interestingly, a similar proposal was raised some five years ago, but was considered to be so controversial in the sense it conferred federal powers on the EU, that it was quickly dropped without discussion.

This federalist tax is further proof that the EU is working towards the establishment of a federal political entity, in the same mode as the United States of America; making a mockery of pre-Lisbon Treaty claims by pro-EU politicians that the EU has no designs in that direction.

Amongst the political baggage brought with the Lisbon Treaty, were the introduction of new institutions — including a new President of Europe and a foreign minister having a dedicated diplomatic service.

To a bid to justify this blatant leap into federalism the Director General of the European Commission’s Budget department, recently informed a Brussels audience that the EU was “very close to paralysis” because of the reluctance of stretched national treasuries to give it funding.

“We should have a mechanism which would serve to exploit the possibility, in a progressive way, to lead to direct funding of the EU”.

The proposed federal tax will lead directly to rises in petrol and energy bills and indirectly to price increases relating to the production and distribution of goods.

The think-tank Open Europe has calculated, on the basis of the shelved 2005 proposal, that based on a £9 levy on a tonne of CO2, that the cost of the new tax to British businesses and consumers would be at least £3 billion.

It is further reported that both France and Sweden are enthusiastic supporters of an EU carbon tax “as a part of Europe’s fight against climate change” — this despite the “man-made” global warming myth having been thoroughly debunked and the United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) discredited through “Climategate”.

Just like the UN, the EU is determined to levy taxes to combat a threat that simply does not exist; it is a development that is totally in line with the recently exposed UN plan to “restructure global governance” and move towards a “Green World Order” — as reported on by this site only yesterday.