[Deep breath]
HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!
A KNIFE TAX!
A KNIFE TAX!!
Every day we get closer to The Bee's 2018 prediction:
Here's more on the proposal from the Daily Record:
A retired judge has written an open letter to the Chancellor calling on her to include a tax on pointed kitchen knives in the Budget. Former circuit judge Nic Madge wants a tax of around £20 on pointed knives to discourage consumers from using them, which he believes would work in a similar way to charges for plastic bags.
20 pounds!
A 20-pound extra tax on "pointed knives" so customers will buy useless blunted ones!!
And get this: Brits already have to present ID to buy a new kitchen knife online!!
Meanwhile, here in America, this is my kitchen counter as I write this article:
[The retired judge] wrote: 'Some people call for a ban on new pointed kitchen knives, but expert chefs, butchers and fishmongers need them. An easier and less controversial method would be to create a price differential. The imposition of a 5p charge for single use plastic bags rendered them obsolete.'
Not obsolete. Plastic is still superior to paper in almost every way. If the government took its finger off the scales, they'd immediately come back.
Just like all the other tools needed for life!
Comments:
Brits, I'd say you could wash your sorrows away with a milkshake, but now your government has an extra tax on those too:
For your safety and health, of course!!
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