Posted on 06/11/2024 6:08:42 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
New Zealand is scrapping a scheme to price gas emissions from livestock — squelching a so-called burp and fart tax initiated under the previous left-wing government led by now departed authoritarian Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern.
New legislation will be introduced to parliament this month by the ruling conservative coalition to remove the agriculture sector from a new emissions pricing plan, thus responding to farmer pressure that the plan would make their business unprofitable.
“The government is committed to meeting our climate change obligations without shutting down Kiwi farms,” said Agriculture Minister Todd McClay.
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It’s insane they like insane but it was just another TAX GRAB
O shite!
And here I just applied for a patent for my anal and oral gas meters.
Back in 2000, I met some Kiwi on vacation and we talked politics.
They told me most NZ are so disheartened by politics they do write-in of Bugs Bunny or Daffy Duck.
Perhaps things have finally changed.
I love NZ!
Given that agricultural exports are a big part of the Kiwi economy, this tax seems, in a word, impractical.
“The government is committed to meeting our climate change obligations without shutting down Kiwi farms,” said Agriculture Minister Todd McClay.
Okay, then, authoritarian, but less authoritarian than before. You can’t expect too much.
Will they be less Pro-China too?
If a cow eats grass, the microbes in its guts digest the cellulose, releasing carbon into the air.
If a cow doesn’t eat the grass, it eventually dies, and the microbes in the soil digest the cellulose, releasing carbon into the air.
The amount of rain is exactly the same, either way.
They would have to tax Biden.
Likely they’d make more by taxing politician and bureaucrat farts.
IIRC-—SHEEP OUTNUMBER HUMANS BY ABOUT 20-1.
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