From what I have heard this proposal is in response to the Disposables Tax. That tax seemingly, or at least was seen to, hurt the Haredi community more than any other, so this tax would hurt the secular and almost not hurt the Haredi community at all. Additionally, it is making a responsive claim regarding the environment that raising dogs also hurts the environment. I have no idea if this is true or not and would like to understand how this is an environmental issue. I also wonder why only dogs and not cats or goldfish or parrots and parakeets, or even tigers if you are like Joe Exotic - or would they all be included in this under the "broad term" of "dog"?

It seems service dogs and guard dogs would be exempted from this tax.

Obviously this law proposal is unlikely to pass in the current government. I just wonder if they will re-propose the law when they eventually return to government or if this is purely a proposal meant to troll the current members of government.

I wonder how they will justify proposing a law to raise a tax (proposing a new tax actually) after spending the past year screaming about taxes being raised and the increasing cost of living...