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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They don’t care about healthy kids.
A LeftTax would be fully appropriate. A 25% surcharge on every registered Democrat, socialist, communist, Marxist (but, I repeat myself).
Watermelon........................100
Hey! That’s RACIST!
“As I hear tell all the parts are crammed into one big part, then the one big part is cut up into little pieces parts. And parts is parts.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-H5WKuQ-an0
*** 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.***
The manure from livestock is the best fertilizer there is. As for “farts”, no one complained about the millions of buffalo passing gas. Only cow farts count.
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY)
NY City girl. What does she know about farming.
It appears that the government is suppressing natural fertilizers and demanding they be replaced by chemical fertilizers.
We had a perfect opportunity in 2017 to do just that but instead trump signed a bill that puts a sunset in 2026 for middle class and permanent for the rich. Just wait until the president in 2027 is blamed for this disaster.
“Long pork” steaks... the other white meat. Animal rights nuts should be careful not to force people to look for alternatives to regular pork.
How does watermelon top kale?
speaking of, where’s the collard/turnip greens and the ribs and 4-5 slices of bread?
My favorite lunch when I worked in downtown Orlando. There was a black guy with a roadside smoker stand. Best ribs and greens ever. No watermelon.
DANG!!!
I've been managing my diabetes ALL WRONG!
LOL
/sarc
That’s for sure.
They taxed us to stop tobacco use, they taxed us to stop alcohol consumption, they taxed us to stop personal auto use (gas), they taxed us making it harder to purchase guns and ammo, they taxed us to support do nothing illegals (and to provide the gas to bus them to where they need them), they taxed us to produce revenue to borrow from for their pet projects when they couldn’t tax for them...all in the name of taking care of us cause they love us, the good little children.
See a pattern here? See a problem here?
wy69
Funny how the solution to every problem we face is to give the government more money.
Didn’t she once say something to the effect that we don’t need cows, grocery stores have meat?
“Long pork” steaks
Is that the same as “Long Pig”?
I predict the 87,000 new weaponized IRS police force is to enforce a new meat/CO2 tax and gun tax.
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