Farmers to be taxed on livestock flatulence (New Zealand's Global Warming Wackos Alert)

N.Z.P.A. ^ | 20 June 2003

[DannyTN]

LOL, GOT BEEF?

[TruthShallSetYouFree]

No, no, I said Flat Tax, not Fart Tax!

[elbucko]

I wonder if this is the sort of environmental Bravo Sierra that Rachel Carson intended with her book; "Silent Spring". I doubt it, but this won't be the first wacky idea to emerge from New Zealand. The island is further to the left and nuttier than California.

[Mamzelle]

re: nuttier than California)))

NZ is very restrictive of legal immigration, and enforces against illegal immigration. Interesting place--a beautiful island smug in its isolation, but awfully close to North Korea.

[ErnBatavia]

Intestinal activity bumperootus!

[E=MC²]

But what about all the flatulence coming from libbies??? (Shouldn't that be taxed too?)

[DannyTN]

"But what about all the flatulence coming from libbies??? (Shouldn't that be taxed too?) "

I was thinking, if only we could capture it. All that hot air would solve the energy crisis.

[shaggy eel]

,,, this initiative comes from the same Marxist government that has taxed the middle class in order to achieve a fiscal surplus of $NZ4 billion that will be redistributed before next year's general election - keep in mind that New Zealand has a total population of 4 million people.

Other moves afoot include legislation for lesbians to be legal fathers; legislation drafted to ensure Maori tribes take ownership of foreshores and ocean beds and the widely known disbanding or our airforce to fund the arts The arts includes the gay vote in New Zealand. The move to tax cow farts under the feel good Kyoto Protocol will assist in the aspect of agricultural economic deconstruction. In short, the country is being taken apart by Helen Clark's Labour Party.

[lilylangtree]

"research on emission reductions needed to meet New Zealand's commitment to lower greenhouse gas emissions under the Kyoto protocol."

Let me see if I understand this correctly. NZ will tax animal farmers because their animals break wind. The "F**t Tax" monies will then be used to find ways to reduce animal f**ting based upon greenhouse projections developed by the Kyoto protocol. Obvious solution: Withdraw from being subservient to the Kyoto protocol. Tell the rest of the world to go "f**t" themselves.

[INSENSITIVE GUY]

Catch the flatulence in bags and pump it into chambers full of waiting enviromentalists so they can inhale it to clean our air.

[KC_for_Freedom]

Of course, they don't realize that Scientific American has published data on solar activity. The sun is hotter (radiating more) and has been for the last 24 years. Enough to account for the heating (I suspect).

[shaggy eel]

Interesting place--a beautiful island smug in its isolation, but awfully close to North Korea.

,,, yes it is an interesting place, but close to North Korea? Maybe politically, but about the same distance as you are to Argentina. BTW, New Zealand isn't just one island.

[DannyTN]

"Obvious solution: Withdraw from being subservient to the Kyoto protocol."

Really every American livestock farmer and grain producer should be thanking George Bush right now for rejecting Kyoto.

I can picture some Rat compaigning on Bush's failure to uphold Kyoto only to have some conservative bring up New Zealand's livestock flatulence tax.

[shaggy eel]

The sun is hotter (radiating more) and has been for the last 24 years. Enough to account for the heating (I suspect).

,,, I'd go along with that. Where I am, we've just had the driest summer since 1968.

[Savage Beast]

Can't they figure out some way to harness this natural resource? Maybe they could use something like balloons or something.

[Fintan]

Farmers will be taxed on the flatulence of their livestock in an attempt to slow New Zealand's contribution to global warming.

 

So, if the farmers allow their cows to actually take a dump, does that mean firing squad at dawn?

 

 

[cookcounty]

Buffalo Bill---the environmentalist!

Any estimates yet on how much gas 40,000,000 buffalo emitted before Buffalo Bill Cody came and saved the planet?

[Budge]

I want to see a liberal idiot running around checking to see just how much flatulance each animal puts out.

This must be documented for a cow or sheep, you understand. Don't want anyone to be over or under charged.

[Budge]

duh... bump!

[DannyTN]

"I want to see a liberal idiot running around checking to see just how much flatulance each animal puts out."

Well actually that is a very good question. "Who did document how much greenhouse gas a cow produces? And did they have an agenda when they did?"

I shared that vision, and it was funny, until I realized that we probably have already paid some stupid liberal probably associated with PETA through a grant to measure this so that our beef could be taxed.