EPA 'Cow Tax' Could Charge $175 per Dairy Cow to Curb Greenhouse Gases

businessandmedia.org ^ | December 30, 2008 | Jeff Poor

[Rufus2007]

Call this one of the newest and innovative the ways your government has come up with to battle greenhouse gas emissions.

Indirectly it could be considered a cheeseburger tax, but one of the suggestions offered by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) in its Advance Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (ANPR) for regulating greenhouse gas emissions under the Clean Air Act is to levy a tax on livestock.

The ANPR, released early this year, would give the EPA the authority to regulate greenhouse gas for not only greenhouse gas from manmade sources like transportation and industry, but also “stationary” sources which would include livestock.

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[Rufus2007]

They'll have to create another farm subsidy to offset the greenhouse gas tax.

[Daveinyork]

Will there be a bean tax?

[gorush]

Madness is rampant.

[I see my hands]

To: Cattlemen

Slaughter your herds and walk away.

[AirForceMom]

Madness.
I wonder which new law or tax will be the on switch for mass revolt.

[Zuben Elgenubi]

[Mojave]

Will there be a bean tax?

Will there be a Beano tax deduction?

[omega4179]

This will raise prices on milk for poor democrap voting families.

[jerri]

will the tax make the cows stop farting? what a bunch of idiots.

another way to legally rob people.

[xcamel]

You’re about a month late on this, and the EPA has no authority to impose a “tax”

[Uncle Hal]

Unbelievable Just wait until Obama's team gets in there. This kind of stuff will an every day occurrence.

[autumnraine]

Your cow is destroying the environment, so give me some money. No, the actual transfer of money to my bank account will not change the “damage” your cow is doing to the environment, but it will eliminate any guilt you may feel and will help me not hate you for having an evil, planet destroying farting cow.

[Born In America]

Not to be confused with an activity done almost exclusively by women known as ‘farding’....

[TChris]

Madness is rampant.

Indeed.

Thomas Sowell's recent column The Art of the Impossible is applicable, and brilliant as always.

Politicians promise the impossible and gullible voters elect them over and over again.

We are governed by fools because they are elected by fools.

[steelyourfaith]

 

Beam me to Planet Gore !

[Riley]

Yay! Let’s give more money to government, so that they can reduce the food supply and make it more expensive, to combat a menace that has yet to be conclusively proven to even exist! What a winning idea!

If stupidity were painful, the geniuses at the EPA would be in a hospital on a heavy Morphine drip, and *still* screaming.

[Between the Lines]

This will never happen.

The 16 largest dairy States together account for 83 percent of U.S. milk production.

1. California
2. Wisconsin
3. New York
4. Pennsylvania
5. Idaho
6. Minnesota
7. Michigan
8. New Mexico
9. Texas
10. Washington
11. Ohio
12. Iowa
13. Arizona
14. Indiana
15. Vermont
16. Florida

Note how many of these states are Blue states and how many are Red states.

[AEMILIUS PAULUS]

It would be fun to see these politicians stripped stark naked and being led from their offices.

[Rufus2007]

The Supreme Court said they have the authority to regulate greenhouse gases and look how they regulated sulfur dioxide to curb acid rain - by levying limits and fees for violators.

[captnemo1]

Dateline Los Angeles 2012-
In a long awaited move the LA County Zoo will put down the last cow on the planet to prevent global warming. "We knew it was coming to this" said Dr. Bojangels "when we recorded record levels of greenhouse gases from the bovine exhibit".

"Future generations will not be deprived of the experience of seeing a live bovine as moves are underway to film the last one in 3-D" he explained.

This follows other austerity measures to save the planet including the ongoing 3-D filming of all other animals considered to be "Greenhouse Offenders" officials added that soon the entire zoo would be 3-D friendly.

Officials from PETA could not be immediately reached for comment.