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.’
How are they going to tax all the wild game around the world such as bison, elephants, elk, rhinos, hippo’s, etc?
Those beasts put out a whole lot of gas.
Yours.
Denmark “will be the first country in the world to introduce a real CO2 tax on agriculture”
Followed shortly thereafter with food riots, and mass hangings of government idiots who chose to introduce a CO2 tax on agriculture.
Fixed.
It is an affect that has progressed from Norway to Newfoundland. I guess we could call that earth farting.
Denmark has a very intensive, animal based agriculture.
This will be suicide.
They may be importing milk from China soon!
I suppose Danish universities will now offer degrees in Flatulence Accounting and Fart Economics.
First they came for the cars.....
Further proof that this whole Global Warming/Climate Change scam is all about imposing Global Communism on the planet.
Are they going to tax each fart Michael Moore makes when he visits Copenhagen?
I could just see it now. “What do you do for a living?” “I count farts.” “You do what?”
🤣🙂👍
Hoping there is a liberal assigned to each cow a$$ to count them.
Paying a tax on something that is impossible to measure is right from Monty Python ,LOL but it’s just another tax grab so politicians can waste it
Unless the people wake up to the reality that is a war against them by their governments, and respond accordingly.
Anyone who starts their push back against the EnviroNazis with “We recognize that there is a climate problem.” is scientifically illiterate, and does not realize that the attack they are trying to defend themselves is purely political, is indented to destroy their business, confiscate their property and end their way of life.
“We will take a big step closer in becoming climate neutral in 2045,” Bruus said.”
You’ll take a big step closer to being the dumbest shits on the planet! Eurotrash.
Coo coo for Coco Puffs.
5.56mm
They have attached an audiodetector to each cow?
Don’t feed the cows beans or else the taxes will go up exhorbantly.
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