Posted on 06/27/2024 6:49:41 AM PDT by Red Badger
The government has warned livestock farmers in Denmark they will be taxed on the amount of farts and burps from their cows, sheep, and pigs.
From 2030, farmers will be taxed for their fatulent (sic) livestock, becoming the first country in the world to do so as it targets methane emissions to fight climate change.
Taxation Minister Jeppe Bruus said the aim is part of the globalist push to supposedly reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 70 percent from 1990 levels by 2030.
Danish livestock farmers will face a punitive financial imposition of 300 kroner ($43) per ton of carbon dioxide equivalent
The tax will increase to 750 kroner ($108) by 2035.
However, Breitbart reports that due to a 60 percent income tax deduction, the actual cost per ton will start at 120 kroner ($17.3) and increase to 300 kroner by 2035.
“We will take a big step closer in becoming climate neutral in 2045,” Bruus said.
He added that Denmark “will be the first country in the world to introduce a real CO2 tax on agriculture” and hoped other countries would follow suit.
“With this agreement, we are investing billions in the biggest transformation of the Danish landscape in recent times,” Foreign Minister Lars Lokke Rasmussen said in a statement Tuesday.
“At the same time, we will be the first country in the world with a (carbon) tax on agriculture.”
CNN reported: In the first two years, the proceeds from the tax will be used to support the agricultural industry’s green transition and then reassessed.
“The whole purpose of the tax is to get the sector to look for solutions to reduce emissions,” Concito’s chief economist Torsten Hasforthsaid said.
However, Danish farmers’ group Bæredygtigt Landbrug said the measures amounted to a “scary experiment.”
“We believe that the agreement is pure bureaucracy,” chairman Peter Kiær said in a statement.
“We recognize that there is a climate problem.”
“But we do not believe this agreement will solve the problems because it will put a spoke in the wheel of agriculture’s green investments.”
Meanwhile, New Zealand passed a similar law that will take effect next year, imposing a crushing new tax on all livestock emissions.
The legislation, however, was removed after a flood of criticism from farmers and a change of government at the 2023 election from former Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern to a center-right one
New Zealand said it would now exclude agriculture from its emissions trading scheme in favor of exploring other ways to fight ‘climate change.’
Farmer Ping!..................
Oh my, begging for Monty Python to do a sketch about something like this.
What are the job qualification requirements to get hired on as a Danish cow fart counter?
The Green New Steal
Insanity of the highest order. In ten years food consumption in Europe will be the same as for a inmate of Dachau concentration camp. People will commit suicide. That’s the plan.
Who’s counting the farts and burps of the Danish politicians and government bureaucRATS? Why does DemocRAT and BureaucRAT both end in RAT anyway?
Next thing you know, there will be competitive events featuring this physical event. As a sign of rebellion. Tournaments, even!
What might such a trophy look like?
Now how are they possibly going to count the number of cow farts? 🤣 Absolute insanity.
Do the Danes have "Fart Counters"?
They going to attach a “Fart-O-Meter” to each cow?
did the people vote for this? remember friends “Elections have consequences and then everyone suffers the consequences” always applies when the general voting public gets to determine their leaders. more interesting is the fact that even those who can’t vote can still make a difference. the French revolution is a good example. even the people who head a country have a removable head.
Western civilization has lost it’s collective mind. The political class can do virtually anything in the name of climate change.
I guess those would be "natural" farts.
Do fish fart too? Gotta go after those fish farms!
You are right. The globalists want a reduction in population, but they still want the credibility of their hands being clean. So, they intend to make so miserable that people end themselves.
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