Not only would a tax of this size "impose severe penalties on livestock producers", it would put many out of business.
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To: prairiebreeze
Hmmmm. Sounds like just another 'gas tax' to me.
2 posted on
11/18/2008 6:37:41 PM PST by
Viking2002
(Let's be proactive and start the impeachment NOW.)
To: prairiebreeze
Not only would a tax of this size "impose severe penalties on livestock producers", it would put many out of business.
That's the idea. Hungry people will gladly apply to their Ministry of Beef for the quota tokens, especially after hearing so many MSM stories about how private farmers were "under-regulated".
To: prairiebreeze
How does the EPA have taxing authority? I know they can levy regulations which cost, but taxes?
5 posted on
11/18/2008 6:39:36 PM PST by
ConservativeMind
(Obama is bringing in every crook and bumbler he can to assure consistency in his message.)
To: prairiebreeze
It would also accomplish what the environazis can’t impose on us otherwise, many people would be forced to become vegetarians. For most cows that would add a 10 to 20% tax and cows are already subject to property tax yearly.
6 posted on
11/18/2008 6:40:04 PM PST by
tiki
(True Christians will not deliberately slander or misrepresent others or their beliefs)
To: prairiebreeze
WAIT, didn’t President Bush just sign one of those “last minute” executive orders that gave Mining Cos permission to wreck havoc with mountain tops and watersheds to get at the coal?
And just where was the EPA then?
Why do I keep thinking “hell in a handbasket?”
7 posted on
11/18/2008 6:40:28 PM PST by
HighlyOpinionated
(Psalm 66:7b "He watches every movement of the nations. Rebels will not be able to oppose Him.")
To: prairiebreeze
The cow tax and the pig tax are parts of a larger scheme by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Yeah, to impose totalitarianism and destroy America.
8 posted on
11/18/2008 6:41:05 PM PST by
NaughtiusMaximus
(Never worry, never doubt. Run in circles, scream and shout.)
To: prairiebreeze
Nope,the price of meat would just go up to cover the tax.
12 posted on
11/18/2008 6:46:20 PM PST by
Farmer Dean
(168 grains of instant conflict resolution)
To: prairiebreeze
I have no problem with the tax IF we equally apply the tax to imported livestock and boxed meat.
13 posted on
11/18/2008 6:47:08 PM PST by
B4Ranch
(("In politics, nothing happens by accident. If it happens, you can bet it was planned that way." FDR)
To: prairiebreeze
Obama: I hate people being able to AFFORD food...
(e.g. “Let them eat cake.”)
14 posted on
11/18/2008 6:47:22 PM PST by
OneWingedShark
(Q: Why am I here? A: To do Justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with my God.)
To: prairiebreeze
When the Chinese write the “official” history of the downfall of the United States of America, the title will be:
“What the He!! Were They Thinking?”
15 posted on
11/18/2008 6:50:24 PM PST by
henkster
(It's time for a conservative "long march through the institutions.")
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As a non cow/pig owner, those are some pretty stiff taxes.
17 posted on
11/18/2008 6:52:55 PM PST by
SJackson
(http://www.jewish-history.com/emporium/)
To: prairiebreeze
I thought the government wasn't supposed to tax food. So the food is still in a living state, it's still food.
If they are taxed because they emit greenhouse gas, so do all living creatures. Do we tax ourselves for breathing, too?
-PJ
18 posted on
11/18/2008 6:54:24 PM PST by
Political Junkie Too
(You can never overestimate the Democrats' ability to overplay their hand.)
To: prairiebreeze
"...the cow tax would be $175 per dairy cow, $87.50 per head for beef cattle..."
Whoah, there! Reverse those taxes, so that those with play-ranches (movie stars, other business moguls and the like--always beef) have to pay the higher tax. And get a tax on those millions of horses that are standing around and not being ridden. That should do it.
Under those conditions, the policy would not pass. It can only pass, if meat for the working class folks is taxed.
19 posted on
11/18/2008 6:54:24 PM PST by
familyop
(cbt. engr. (cbt), NG, '89-'96, Duncan Hunter or no-vote, http://falconparty.com/)
To: prairiebreeze
“We can’t drive our SUVs and eat as much as we want and keep our homes on 72 degrees at all times... and then just expect that other countries are going to say OK. That’s not leadership. That’s not going to happen.
Barack Obama “
Lot of Americans will go hungry
20 posted on
11/18/2008 6:55:31 PM PST by
Lera
To: prairiebreeze
So they will put all the American dairy, beef, and pork farmers out of business and then we can import our meat from elsewhere?
22 posted on
11/18/2008 6:55:48 PM PST by
pnz1
To: prairiebreeze
Under the proposal, if a state charged the presumptive minimum rate from the EPA, the cow tax would be $175 per dairy cow..." Krause explained. So let me get this straight...the EPA is taxing cows while simultaneously dairy farmers receive subsidies from the Department of Agriculture.
These people are ****ing insane.
24 posted on
11/18/2008 7:00:19 PM PST by
denydenydeny
("The monster state is a source of many evils; but it is, above all, an engine of envy."-Paul Johnson)
To: prairiebreeze
Or is this a prelude to another subsidy not unlike the federal land bank. Pay ranchers not to raise beef to keep the world hungry. Either way, the consumer gets screwed.
26 posted on
11/18/2008 7:02:22 PM PST by
Steamburg
( Your wallet speaks the only language most politicians understand.)
To: prairiebreeze
"If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And If it stops moving, subsidize it."
Ronald Reagan on government management of the economy.
28 posted on
11/18/2008 7:03:46 PM PST by
Ken H
To: prairiebreeze
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/k6KUDv1wzraWhwlBt1
Insane proposals designed to destroy businesses is the status quo for the modern “democratic” party.
We need to educate the masses before it’s too late, they have a bill ready to destroy every business in America.
29 posted on
11/18/2008 7:04:19 PM PST by
word_warrior_bob
(You can now see my amazing doggie and new puppy on my homepage!! Come say hello to Jake & Sonny)
To: prairiebreeze
Seems to me the chickens will be coming home to rooooooooost.
30 posted on
11/18/2008 7:09:08 PM PST by
spokeshave
(0bambi wants to kill babies and raise taxes, Sarah wants to raise babies and kill taxes)
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