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.’
A new job - cow fart counter.
The power to tax is the power to destroy.
I’d be butchering every animal I owned and putting them in the deep freeze for my own personal consumption.
Then I would raise a few meat animals and add more egg and meat chickens - also for my own consumption - and quadruple my vegetable garden production.
Then I’d sit back and watch those around me starve to death.
Oh, wait. I already DO that, LOL! Sorry, no answers but pass the Danish! ;)
how do you measure a cow fart.......................
If I had a dollar for every one hubby has let fly over the years, I’d own a lot more DJT shares.
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