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Leftist Calls For A ‘Meat Tax’ Reach Fever Pitch
Daily Wire ^ | August 16, 2022 | Ben Zeisloft

Posted on 08/17/2022 8:24:57 AM PDT by Twotone

As President Joe Biden signs the largest climate package in American history, some leftist’s are bothered by policymakers’ hesitance to create a tax on meat.

Democratic lawmakers have long claimed that excrement produced by livestock and poultry farming — “farting cows,” as Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) once put it — have an outsized impact on global temperatures. Discussion about crafting new disincentives for meat consumption resurfaced as the Inflation Reduction Act advanced through Congress after months of gridlock.

Vox reporter Kenny Torrella, for instance, noted that the Inflation Reduction Act devotes 5% of its funds toward “changing farming practices” while entirely ignoring meat and dairy production — the sector’s “biggest climate culprit.”

“Even though the money to cut emissions from agriculture is misplaced, the strategy — hand out money to do the right thing rather than penalize polluters for doing the wrong thing — is politically smart, and in keeping with the bill’s carrot rather than stick approach to energy,” Torrella wrote. “Just like the environmental movement had for decades, the effort to shift our meat-centric food system to a more plant-based one has historically focused on the stick approach: suing farms for pollution, banning the cage confinement of hens and pigs, and even floating the concept of a tax on meat consumption.”

Biden was able to advance many of his policy goals through the $740 billion law, which includes $369 billion in climate spending. The package likewise incorporates billions in new taxes that the federal government will reap from businesses and the middle class with a twice-as-large Internal Revenue Service.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: globalwarminghoax; leftists; meattax; tax; taxes
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1 posted on 08/17/2022 8:24:57 AM PDT by Twotone
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To: Twotone

I think we need a tax on stupidity.


2 posted on 08/17/2022 8:27:15 AM PDT by oldasrocks
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To: Twotone

Another one of the Nazi Klaus Schwab’s ideas ?


3 posted on 08/17/2022 8:28:40 AM PDT by butlerweave
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To: Twotone

I will soooo enjoy it when we finally rise up and ... lower their operating temp.


4 posted on 08/17/2022 8:28:40 AM PDT by Da Coyote
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To: Twotone

They need to shut up and eat their sticks and grass clippings. Idiots want to run everybody else’s lives and they can’t run their own. They’ve got a “college diploma” and still can’t get anyone to hire them. The screws and bolts hanging off their faces don’t help.


5 posted on 08/17/2022 8:33:11 AM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (The House is supposed to represent the people, not the friggin' Federal government. )
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To: Twotone

Globalist scumbags want us to eat insects. They can eat 💩. 500+ trillion flies and dung beetles can’t be wrong.


6 posted on 08/17/2022 8:34:03 AM PDT by Impala64ssa (If a liar's pants really did catch on fire CBC, ABC, CNN and MSNBC would be more fun to watch)
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To: Twotone

Sandy Cortez is a “farting cow”? What are we going to do with all of the farting buffalo?


7 posted on 08/17/2022 8:34:51 AM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (The House is supposed to represent the people, not the friggin' Federal government. )
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To: Impala64ssa
Globalist scumbags want us to eat insects.

Not Kosher. Maybe this will cost them the Jewish vote.

8 posted on 08/17/2022 8:35:37 AM PDT by Pearls Before Swine
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To: Twotone

They never stop. Because we ALLOW it to continue.


9 posted on 08/17/2022 8:40:24 AM PDT by unixfox (Abolish Slavery, Repeal the 16th Amendment)
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To: Twotone

Lucky Charms - Healthier than eggs, dairy and beef

https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/great-reset-food-compass-cola/

10 posted on 08/17/2022 8:40:59 AM PDT by Pollard (Worm Free PureBlood)
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To: oldasrocks

I think we need a tax on stupidity.

= = =

Well, when their IQ is 0, you can’t have a high enough tax % to get anything.


11 posted on 08/17/2022 8:42:47 AM PDT by Scrambler Bob (My /s is more true than your /science (or you might mean /seance))
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To: Pollard

They sure love to use the force of government against us Normals, don’t they. Would be a f***ing pity if someone used force against them.


12 posted on 08/17/2022 8:42:51 AM PDT by quikstrike98
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To: Twotone
Cultured Meat - Future Meat has chicken breast production cost down to $1.70/lb - only good for nuggets and patties.


13 posted on 08/17/2022 8:44:49 AM PDT by Pollard (Worm Free PureBlood)
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To: Twotone

How about a meat head tax?


14 posted on 08/17/2022 8:48:41 AM PDT by Leep (Hillary will NEVER be president! 😁)
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To: Twotone

Oh poop. There is no “fever pitch”. What there IS is clickbait.

A tiny handful of lunatics is not a “fever pitch”. Find something real to write about. Hey. I have an idea. Unless there is something of special importance to write about, don’t write anything. We don’t need daily clickbait drivel.


15 posted on 08/17/2022 8:48:41 AM PDT by Seruzawa ("The Political left is the Garden of Eden of incompetence" - Marx the Smarter (Groucho))
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To: Twotone

How ‘bout a 100% tax on liberals?


16 posted on 08/17/2022 8:53:26 AM PDT by july4thfreedomfoundation (Disband and Defund the putrid FBI. America does not need an out of control Gestapo)
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To: Twotone
Just another way to take money from us. Biden's doing it with taxes and inflation. 87,000 IRS agents! Anyone who thinks those agents are only going to look at "rich" people, I have a bridge for sale. Let's go with a flat tax of 15% for personal and corporate taxes, no deductions...period. I don't care if your Bezos or on welfare, 15% of all income. Your tax return would be a postcard.
17 posted on 08/17/2022 8:55:06 AM PDT by econjack (I'm not bossy. I just know what you should be doing.)
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To: butlerweave

YES


18 posted on 08/17/2022 8:57:35 AM PDT by jpp113
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To: FlingWingFlyer

“What are we going to do with all of the farting buffalo”?

And the pet dogs, elephants and rhinos and zebras and hippos and tigers, and squirrels and mice and millions of other critters that emit gas.

I forgot the whales and dolphins and seals.


19 posted on 08/17/2022 9:02:01 AM PDT by laplata (They want each crisis to take the greatest toll possible.)
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To: laplata

ALL the animals on Earth combined emit less noxious and toxic gas than the US CONGRESS.


20 posted on 08/17/2022 9:12:32 AM PDT by OHPatriot (Si vis pacem, para bellum)
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