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EPA proposes fart tax
Yes, it’s just as stupid as it sounds. But sadly, they’re serious.
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.
The New York Farm Bureau assigned a price tag to the cost of greenhouse gas regulation by the EPA in a release last month.
“The tax for dairy cows could be $175 per cow, and $87.50 per head of beef cattle. The tax on hogs would [be] upwards of $20 per hog,” the release said. “Any operation with more than 25 dairy cows, 50 beef cattle or 200 hogs would have to obtain permits.”
Although methane is 20 times more detrimental than CO2 as a “greenhouse gas,” it’s ludicrous to use this red herring to further line the government’s pockets under the guise of global warming/climate change/insert next euphemism here.
Am I the only one here worried about the EPA trying to impose taxes? Last I checked, (and according to the United States Constitution, Article 1, Section 8) only Congress has the authority to lay and collect federal taxes.
Besides, if the EPA is actually serious about controlling methane, are they planning on also taxing wetlands (76% of global methane emissions from natural sources result from wetlands), termites (they create 11% of the global methane emissions), oceans, and wildfires? Because that’s just as stupid as what they’re proposing.
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UPDATE: Turns out, this one is just so much hot air. (Sorry, couldn’t help myself on that one.)
The farm lobby warned that EPA “could” push for such a tax, but EPA never proposed any such thing and says it lacks authority to impose one anyway.This one is a case study in how lobbyists sometimes justify their own salaries by loudly fighting against hypothetical but nonexistent threats from Washington.
The source of this hokum is a misleading news release put out by the American Farm Bureau Federation on Nov. 20. The highly inaccurate headline read: “AFBF Opposes EPA-Proposed Tax on Livestock.” In truth, however, the Environmental Protection Agency hasn’t proposed any tax on livestock. In fact, the Farm Bureau’s own documentation admitted as much.
Posted by FullMetalPatriot
12th gen. American, Constitutionalist, Harley-riding Texan, gun owner & NRA member, blogger, illustrator, Florida Gator alumnus. #TCOT
12th gen. American, Constitutionalist, Harley-riding Texan, gun owner & NRA member, blogger, illustrator, Florida Gator alumnus. #TCOT
