Can't pay your annual dog tax? We will simply kill the dog.

[~~whimsy~~]

A Swiss village has found a drastic way to compel dog holders to pay their pet's annual tax: cough up, or the dog gets it.

Reconvilier — population 2,245 humans, 280 dogs — plans to put Fido on notice if its owner doesn't pay the annual $50 tax.

Local official Pierre-Alain Nemitz says the move is part of an effort to reclaim hundreds of thousands of dollars in unpaid taxes.

He says a law from 1904 allows the village to kill dogs if its owner does not pay the canine charge.

Nemitz told the AP on Monday that authorities have received death threats since news of the plan got out.

"This isn't about a mass execution of dogs," Nemitz said. "It's meant to put pressure on people who don't cooperate."

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=132806172

Next move is if you do not pay your regular taxes we will kill you!

 

[joelucas]

That's just all fucked up!

 

[L3ggy]

I must save my domesticated brothers and sisters.

 

[Supafly]

That will probably solve a lot of problems.

 

[PlasmaTwa2]

They won't do it. They're Swiss.

 

[mrtrebus]

I must save my domesticated brothers and sisters.

:rofl2:
Good luck with that!

I loathe canines. The less of them the better.
Ken Dodd's Dad's Dog's Dead!
:bowdown:

 

[L3ggy]

I heard you the first you said it, no need to repeat yourself, like a broken record.

 

[mrtrebus]

I heard you the first you said it, no need to repeat yourself, like a broken record.

A scratched record would repeat itself.
A broken one wouldn't work at all!

 

[L3ggy]

Figure of speech.

 

[mrtrebus]

Figure of speech.

I know. But for some reason the phrase has always annoyed me. . .

Feel free to return to the subject of this thread. Mr Dog.

 

[jod0565]

Meow.

 

[Facetious]

PeTA where are you? :hammer:

 

[Ulysses31]

No wonder Hitler saw the Swiss as allies, THEIR HEARTS ARE AS BLACK AS THE NIGHT ITSELF. Why not just make the tax a direct debit so it goes straight out of peoples bank accounts.

 

[vodkazvictim]

Switzerland appears to have changed from the country I remember loving as a youth

 

[Facetious]

No wonder Hitler saw the Swiss as allies, THEIR HEARTS ARE AS BLACK AS THE NIGHT ITSELF. Why not just make the tax a direct debit so it goes straight out of peoples bank accounts.

...No, just confiscate their guns and sell them in America.
I've always wanted to own a Sig P 210 . . . this might be a golden opportunity. Really, this is a win-win, the dogs get to go on to live a happy life and I can finally own a masterpiece!

 

[Ulysses31]

...No, just confiscate their guns and sell them in America.
I've always wanted to own a Sig P 210 . . . this might be a golden opportunity.

What would they kill the dogs with then :dunno: I'm sick of the Swiss, first they give us Martina Hingis and now this

 

[mrtrebus]

What would they kill the dogs with then :dunno:

They boil them alive.

 

[Member442]

That is mean to the poor dogs it's not their fault.

 

[Facetious]

I'm sick of the Swiss, first they give us Martina Hingis and now this

Well, she is 1/2 Czech. :tongue:

That is mean to the poor dogs it's not their fault.

No it's not their fault! Mankind is responsible for the spread of domesticated animalia, great point!

 

[Ulysses31]

Well, she is 1/2 Czech. :tongue:

And the other half Hungarian, we never stood a chance. She went out with a footballer here called Sol Campbell who is our equivalent of your Dennis Rodman, a weird black guy who may or may not have been gay, it didn't last.