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Government Parasite Taxes On Pets

Greedy government is always on the lookout for new tax ideas and pets are always in their line of fire. It's bad enough that pet owners have to deal with parasites like fleas and ticks on their pets but government is one kind of parasite you just can't get rid of.

Where I live in Australia local government first of all introduced registration fees for dogs. It's to help you find your dog if it gets lost was one of the excuses. It's to help stop strays was another.

Registration is compulsory so they get more money from fines if you don't pay. In addition, they increase the registration fee annually, so their income rises year by year. At the moment just a small dog costs $100 a year.

With this registration law they gave themselves special legal authority to enter your home to search for pets you might be hiding so I think of them as the Pet Police.

At the time they introduced this dog registration they promised they would not interfere with cats. But now they are ordering people to register their pet cats.

First they want you to tell them how many cats you own and bet your life that soon they'll be announcing the registration fees for cats.

What next I wonder? Mice registration? Rats? Goldfish? Chickens?

I'm really tired of government sticking it's beak into my personal business and nothing is more personal than one's pets.

As far as I'm concerned the worst pet parasites are political ones. It would be nice if we could treat them in the same way as fleas. Imagine it a spray that makes your rat bag political person disappear with one squirt.

Ah well, I can dream can't I?

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