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Re:Exit Tax: Leave Germany before your business gets big by cpursley on Friday August 08, 2025 @05:59AM (#44835266)
Don’t forget the energy suicide Germany has committed. Cheap energy was the backbone of Germanys rich industrial economy, and that rug has been (allowed and even encouraged) to be pulled by none other than the country now offering them a “very good price” on LNG…
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Re:Exit Tax: Leave Germany before your business gets big by trallnag on Friday August 08, 2025 @08:17AM (#44836130)
Did you miss the Russo-Ukrainian war? Or are you suggesting that we (Europeans) should have continued pumping cash into Russia for a bunch of gas?
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Re:Exit Tax: Leave Germany before your business gets big by properpopper on Friday August 08, 2025 @11:14AM (#44837984)
No, but I think that diplomacy layer did a horrible job in stopping that conflict early. They signed the Minsk agreements just to ignore them later
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Re:Exit Tax: Leave Germany before your business gets big by bhelkey on Friday August 08, 2025 @01:06PM (#44839339)
I think what they were referring to Germany phasing out nuclear power.

In 2011 Germany had 17 active nuclear power plants. They closed their last one in 2023.

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Re:Exit Tax: Leave Germany before your business gets big by cpursley on Friday August 08, 2025 @01:36PM (#44839600)
You still are, and more than you've sent to help Ukraine. I was mostly talking nuclear power shutdowns btw. Meanwhile, vital German heavy industry has already started shutting down.
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Re:Exit Tax: Leave Germany before your business gets big by ExoticPearTree on Friday August 08, 2025 @05:59PM (#44842115)
> I was mostly talking nuclear power shutdowns btw.

There is some confusion here: the issue is not necessarily about pure electrical power alone. You need oil and oil based products for most of the things (plastics, fabrics etc.).

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Re:Exit Tax: Leave Germany before your business gets big by ExoticPearTree on Friday August 08, 2025 @05:57PM (#44842094)
> Or are you suggesting that we (Europeans) should have continued pumping cash into Russia for a bunch of gas?

Unpopular opinion these days, but yes. A government's duty is first and foremost to its citizens. Anyone else comes last.

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