Jan 05 2009
Cow Tax: $175 For Bovine Hot Air
We’ve told you before about the sought-after cow tax that would penalize dinner for eating, breathing, and whatever other functions need to occur. Since cows are not a favorite for the folks at PETA and because environmentally minded advocates know cows produce greenhouse gases like they’re going out of style, beef may be what’s for dinner — but the activists want it to come at a higher cost.
The Business and Media Institute is on the case, and it has some helpful figures. It seems the tax would come to about $175 per head of cattle under a possible new EPA rule:
Indirectly it could be considered a cheeseburger tax, but one of the suggestions offered by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) in its Advance Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (ANPR) for regulating greenhouse gas emissions under the Clean Air Act is to levy a tax on livestock.
The ANPR, released early this year, would give the EPA the authority to regulate greenhouse gas for not only greenhouse gas from manmade sources like transportation and industry, but also “stationary” sources which would include livestock.
It’s worth noting that this one single proposal could raise the cost of a gallon of milk by as much as $0.08. Makes you wonder where we’ll feel the costs of a massive new federal bureaucracy if cap-and-traders get their way.
The human butt plug with a coin slot is coming.
There would more of an effect that .08 per gallon of milk. Farmers would stop milking and sell the cows. Then where would your milk come from China? Beef farmers are already not making that much to raise a head of beef and they will stop raising them, who would to loose money. All Beef and pork would have to be imported. With shortages and import costs a steak at a restaurant would be more like 100 dollars and a Big mac would be 30 or more if you could even get it. This effects all meat we eat here in the US.
Eat less beef, cut global warming. This is about changing all of our unhealthy activists.