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Jan 5 2009 12:00AM
http://sayanythingblog.com/index.php I think most of the American public still thinks the idea of the government taxing cow and pig farts in the latest front in the war on global warming is a bad joke. But it’s not. They’re serious about this, and the expense to ranchers and dairy farmers is going to be huge if they get their way:
A rancher with 500 head of beef cattle would have to pay, annually, upwards of $43,750/cow So what impact will this heavy new tax on our food supplies have?
For one thing, it’s either going to drive the cost of meat through the ceiling or the taxpayers are going to be asked to more heavily subsidize the ranching industry. Either way, it’s more burden on the taxpayers at large not just ranchers
For another, it could well kill the domestic ranching and dairy industries. My guess is that we’ll be put on the hook for more subsidies to keep that from happening, but if we’re not a lot of ranches will go out of business. And America will start importing its meat from countries that haven’t gone crazy and started taxing their cattle for the sake of global warming
Unless, of course, that in turn prompts the protectionists to raise tariffs on imported meat. At which point we’re back to Americans just flat out paying a hell of a lot more for their food either through direct prices or subsidies It’s a bad situation all the way around, and you have to wonder why so many are so willing to plunge us into it. Do we really need to regulate cow farts? What is the EPA’s objective? To decrease the meet supply by taxing it, thus forcing more of us to be vegetarians? Isn’t this a free country? Can’t we just eat what we want? And why cow farts? Don’t animals in nature emit the same gases? Don’t we humans emit the same gases? What’s next, an EPA-levied tax on Taco Bell customers?
I’ve said before that with global warming alarmists claiming that the very air we exhale is a pollutant they have an excuse to exert government control over every aspect of our lives. After all, if we can’t eat or breathe without polluting there’s no way we can avoid it. It now appears as though the global warming alarmists have that very goal in mind
And we, in turn, should all be very alarmed about that
Disclaimer: This article is a blog post and does not represent the views or opinions of Reiten Television, KXNet.com, its staff and associates and is wholly owned by the user who posted this content.
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