Imagine all those open source projects or Linux systems, are they also going to pay this tax?

If it was ever about that they would have done this years ago. It’s about the midterms.

Unfortunately in times like these, populist parties gain traction. But this is not only on the times but also on the CDU/CSU who didn’t really prepare Germany for the digital age.

They were paying huge war repetitions after WWI. So in a way, if they weren’t forced to do so, WWII wouldn’t probably happen because people would simply not vote for him.

But things were completely different, back then they had hyper inflation.

The whole transportation business run on diesel. There are currently no good truck EVs and if there are they will require special charging stations, so it would be very difficult to change to renewables and EV overnight.

We will still be dependent on petrol though, but much less, but petrol is needed in the chemical industry for the production of plastic, for plane fuel, etc.