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EU introduces €3 customs charge on small parcels to curb poor people being able to afford things

The Guardian phrases its description of what the EU is doing more sympathetically – “EU introduces €3 customs charge on small parcels to curb cheap Chinese imports” – but the end result is the same.

1 comment to EU introduces €3 customs charge on small parcels to curb poor people being able to afford things

  • Subotai Bahadur

    I know that in britain EU taxes are nothing new; but I seem to remember that before 1776 one of the triggers of the Revolutionary Unpleasantness here in North America was the concept of “taxation without representation” imposed on us. Ah, the good old days!

    Subotai Bahadur

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