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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I think we need a tax on stupidity.
Another one of the Nazi Klaus Schwab’s ideas ?
I will soooo enjoy it when we finally rise up and ... lower their operating temp.
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.
Globalist scumbags want us to eat insects. They can eat 💩. 500+ trillion flies and dung beetles can’t be wrong.
Sandy Cortez is a “farting cow”? What are we going to do with all of the farting buffalo?
Not Kosher. Maybe this will cost them the Jewish vote.
They never stop. Because we ALLOW it to continue.
Lucky Charms - Healthier than eggs, dairy and beef
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I think we need a tax on stupidity.
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Well, when their IQ is 0, you can’t have a high enough tax % to get anything.
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.
How about a meat head tax?
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.
How ‘bout a 100% tax on liberals?
YES
“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.
ALL the animals on Earth combined emit less noxious and toxic gas than the US CONGRESS.
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