You're going to go. We're back with another edition of The Federalist Radio Hour. I'm Emily Jershensky,

culture editor here at The Federalist, as always. You can email the show at radio at the Federalist.

Follow us on X at FDR LST. Make sure to subscribe wherever you download your podcast and of course to the premium version of our website as well. I'm joined today once again by Bill Wards.

Bill is the senior policy analyst at the Consumer Choice Center. He's been writing a lot about, and you probably remember

last time Bill was on the show, he's still writing a lot about the sort of

uprising of farmers in various countries across the EU.

Bill, welcome back to Federalist Radio Hour.

Thank you for having me back.

So you're actually just on Fox News a couple of days ago

talking about what's happening in Germany right now.

I think last time you were on, we were talking about what's happening in Germany right now. I think last time you were on we were talking

about what was happening with Dutch farmers. First of all, why don't we start with you just

telling us what the heck is happening in Germany right now because I think a lot of people

have seen the viral images on social media and have seen both sides you come up with

explanations from what's happening in Germany but tell tell us, Bill, what on earth is going on?

So briefly before Christmas last year, the German government announced new measures in order to plug a hole in the budgets.

About 18 billion dollars that the German government is looking for,

that it can't raise in by taking up new debt because of the constitutional reasons,

they also have a debt ceiling.

So the good German government said, okay, we can raise $1 billion by ending a tax break on diesel for

farmers and also by raising taxes on the purchase of new tractors, new agricultural vehicles.

And what it did is by ending this tax breakers essentially increase the taxes on diesel.

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