Farmers and truckers have assembled across Germany to protest the government’s plan to cut agricultural subsidies and enforce stricter regulations on the working class. Footage shows enormous convoys of tractors and trucks along major highways throughout the country. Reports suggest tens of thousands of farmers are participating in the widespread protests. Something historic is happening. All over Germany‚ farmers and truckers are protesting at a scale never seen before. Tens of thousands of farmers are driving in convoys. And almost nothing about this on the news. It's up to us to share this pic.twitter.com/jVVpRqtCvo — PeterSweden (@PeterSweden7) January 8‚ 2024 “The government’s policies are driving us into the ground‚ and we’re not going to take it lying down‚” farmers reportedly said. Thousands of German farmers have just paralyzed the streets of Berlin‚ in a week-long‚ nationwide protest against government cuts to agriculture. "The government's policies are driving us into the ground‚ and we're not going to take it lying down‚" farmers say. The president of… pic.twitter.com/KhBoxa4p1Q — The Vigilant Fox (@VigilantFox) January 8‚ 2024 WOAH Massive convoy with thousands of tractors and trucks filling up the entire city in Germany. I have never seen anything like this. SHARE if you support the farmers pic.twitter.com/Qv5IHtBgAq — PeterSweden (@PeterSweden7) January 8‚ 2024 In Germany the Truckers and farmers HAVE UNITED! Klaus for brains and Gates must be so pissed because they accidentally WOKE UP THE ENTIRE WORLD! pic.twitter.com/JaQGkdLmxv — Bobby D (@robertdunlap947) January 8‚ 2024 Tens of thousands of farmers are protesting in Germany right now against planned fuel tax increases. The protests are absolutely massive pic.twitter.com/Iaggxei9Dh — PeterSweden (@PeterSweden7) January 8‚ 2024 The German farmers have successfully blocked dozens of highways with the help of the German truckers. This is my view up on a tractor on the A2 – Europe’s busiest highway. I’m blown away. History in the making. pic.twitter.com/td4XkNACQf — Eva Vlaardingerbroek (@EvaVlaar) January 8‚ 2024 According to the Associated Press‚ farmers were enraged over a proposal from Germany’s three-party ruling coalition “to abolish a car tax exemption for farming vehicles and the diesel tax breaks.” AP reports: Farmers blocked highway access roads in parts of Germany Monday and snarled traffic elsewhere with their tractors‚ launching a week of protests against a government plan to scrap tax breaks on diesel used in agriculture. Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s unpopular three-party coalition infuriated farmers last month by drawing up plans to abolish a car tax exemption for farming vehicles and the diesel tax breaks. The proposals were part of a package to fill a 17-billion-euro ($18.6-billion) hole in the 2024 budget. Motorways in Germany were also blocked. It's incredible how the mainstream media censors these protests. pic.twitter.com/Uoww7t8wAX — RadioGenoa (@RadioGenoa) January 8‚ 2024 This is MASSIVE Hundreds of tractors in convoy in huge farmer protest in Germany. SHARE – The mainstream media won't show you this video pic.twitter.com/8BnlJ269Yj — PeterSweden (@PeterSweden7) January 7‚ 2024 BREAKING REPORT: Truckers join MASSIVE farmer protest in Germany.. Downtown Berlin has already been effectively shut down by thousands of farmers in what many are the calling the LARGEST PROTEST in modern history.. CORPORATE MEDIA SILENT..pic.twitter.com/j1G1zOtSO8 — Chuck Callesto (@ChuckCallesto) January 8‚ 2024 We asked citizens who got stuck in traffic due to the German farmers’ protests what they thought about it. They fully supported the farmers: "With the current government‚ Germany has been going down the drain… The incompetence of these politicians just drives you nuts." https://t.co/Jjvf6GYB1a — Eva Vlaardingerbroek (@EvaVlaar) January 8‚ 2024 The world can move forward without politicians‚ it cannot move forward without farmers. No farmers‚ no food. https://t.co/XCnHqEeYC5 pic.twitter.com/EKIWfa3JBi — RadioGenoa (@RadioGenoa) January 8‚ 2024 "Patience is over!" Thousands of German farmers block Berlin and Germany to protest against the planned increase in fuel taxes wanted by socialist politicians. pic.twitter.com/POcpXNyNli — RadioGenoa (@RadioGenoa) January 8‚ 2024 Protest by farmers at the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin. According to various reports‚ up to 1000 farmers gathered there. High taxes and rising energy prices are forcing them out of business. The country's Ministry of Finance states that Germany covers half of all aid to Ukraine.… pic.twitter.com/QHc2uVZEF6 — Voice of Europe (@V_of_Europe) January 8‚ 2024 From POLITICO: The government said in a statement that it would gradually phase out tax breaks on diesel fuel for farmers over multiple years rather than cut the benefit abruptly as coalition leaders had initially proposed‚ in order to “give the affected companies more time to adjust.” The government also said it would waive planned tax increases for agricultural vehicles. The leaders of Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s coalition had previously announced the tax hikes on farmers as part of a draft budget deal for 2024 presented last month. The planned increases were part of the coalition’s attempts to plug a multi-billion-euro budget gap that appeared after the country’s top court ruled that some of its spending practices were unlawful. In response to the coalition’s proposal‚ farmers organized a major protest in Berlin in which a convoy of 1‚700 tractors blocked the main road leading to the Brandenburg Gate. Farmers have also planned nationwide protests for next week. The coalition climbdown is unlikely to appease the protesters. “This can only be a first step‚” said Joachim Rukwied‚ president of the German Farmers’ Association. “Our position remains unchanged: Both proposals for cuts must be taken off the table. This is clearly also about the future viability of our industry and the question of whether domestic food production is still desirable at all.” As the ruling coalition struggles to finalize a budget for 2024‚ the continued resistance of farmers illustrates how difficult it will be for party leaders to agree budget cuts without political repercussions.