They'd rather pay a guy a $50 connection fee.

Tbh i would too

I got "smart meters" on my heaters

I live smaller then before

better isolated then before

And i have never in my life paid more for heating then now

does electricity even need to be taxed?

It is here

I mean...

but why, what's the reasoning behind it?

And its not even a light tax, its a ridiculous tax

It depends on what you think the government should be doing, Shin.

If you think the government should be active in a caretaker role for people

then the taxes are necessary.

And, in fact, more taxes would be needed to strengthen that role.

if the government should be an active caretaker, it would be providing electricity in the first place, not taxing the businesses that provide it

If you believe government shouldn't be given decisive power over wellbeing as I do, you start to really see where cuts could be made.

adding 70% to the price, without actually helping to provide the service, seems bizarre

I pay regular taxes for electricity 21%, then another tax on distribution and something for social security shit, then a green energy tax.
And on top of that an illegal extra tax (100€ a year) that will be abolished next year i believe, because its an illegal doubletax.
But forget about seeing your money back oh no thats not how government rolls here.

Presumably, the tax is a fee for the public property used in the process.

which ends in an electric bill that is +70% tax

and 30% electric usage cost + distributing/maintenance costs.

Really little difference between reality and an ideological AnCap paradise.

green energy tax? <:thonkraka:430185885720510475>

except in Acapistan there is no public property.

it is bizarre

Reasoning is that it would incentivize ppl to use less electricity

lol

Be realistic.

That was never the goal.

problem is that the poor of society got serious financial problems now

That's just the excuse that was given.

The only feasible solutions to energy seem to be Nuclear and hydroelectricity

ofc not its all about milking everyone dry to fund that goddamn bureaucracy

People who levy taxes have this nasty habit of telling you 'why' you need the tax on it.

Hey y'all I'm new so I just wanna introduce myself, not tryna interrupt or anything, but what exactly are we talking about?

or telling you 'what' it's going to fund.

electricity

electricity, taxes, capitalism, the usual

Oh fun lmao

This is a great place to get into an argument for hours.