With regard to the Member States, not only do they fail to intervene to put a stop to these increases, they also profit from them through fuel taxes, which is yet another indirect tax, as unfair as VAT, because it hits the richest and the poorest in the same way.
Quant aux États, non seulement ils n'interviennent pas pour freiner ces hausses, mais ils en profitent par le biais des taxes pétrolières, un impôt indirect de plus aussi injuste que la TVA car il frappe de la même façon les plus riches et les plus pauvres.