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2009-01-05 Home Front: Politix

EPA 'Cow Tax' Could Charge $175 per Dairy Cow to Curb Greenhouse Gases

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Posted by Deacon Blues 2009-01-05 12:26|| || Front Page|| [5 views ] Top

#1 The government wants a tax revolt against them, don't they?

The more they tax, the more I want to stock up on guns and ammo.

Posted by DarthVader 2009-01-05 13:36|| 2009-01-05 13:36|| Front Page Top

#2 Tell me when the cow party is.

This is more idiocy from useless government.

Posted by newc">newc 2009-01-05 13:38|| 2009-01-05 13:38|| Front Page Top

#3 It's not idiocy, that would imply simple stupidity.

This is simply a money grab.

Posted by gorb 2009-01-05 13:45|| 2009-01-05 13:45|| Front Page Top

#4 It's more than that. The animal rights / eco activists have had a huge influence on state and federal agencies. They have discussed this sort of tax in the past as a way to penalize and eventually force livestock raisers out of business.

Posted by lotp 2009-01-05 14:42|| 2009-01-05 14:42|| Front Page Top

#5 How much for tax on "Bloviating Politicians"

Posted by Tom- Pa 2009-01-05 14:50|| 2009-01-05 14:50|| Front Page Top

#6 Jeebus, Cripes, what's next? The cost of meat products, already high, would be unafordable to low income people. These people have all the sense of a bucket of ~~hair~~ cow farts.

Fixed it for ya. No charge.

Posted by CrazyFool 2009-01-05 14:51|| 2009-01-05 14:51|| Front Page Top

#7 $175 on a dairy cow is not going to put any dairy out of business -- it's just going to raise the price of milk 7 to 8 cents per gallon.

Posted by Darrell 2009-01-05 14:51|| 2009-01-05 14:51|| Front Page Top

#8 First they tax air. Now they want to tax farts.

Posted by Grunter 2009-01-05 14:54|| 2009-01-05 14:54|| Front Page Top

#9 The cost of meat products, already high, would be unafordable to low income people.

To you, it's a bug, Deacon. To these fools, it's a feature encouraging them to "go vegan".

Posted by Cornsilk Blondie 2009-01-05 15:04|| 2009-01-05 15:04|| Front Page Top

#10 Attach a pilot light to each cow's tail, then unwanted gas would be flared just like a refinery.

Posted by GolfBravoUSMC 2009-01-05 15:05|| 2009-01-05 15:05|| Front Page Top

#11 GB - that would tend to make Bulls _very_ nervious......

Posted by CrazyFool 2009-01-05 15:12|| 2009-01-05 15:12|| Front Page Top

#12 Then they'll figure out that the cows and pigs don't fart as much as they thought they did and raise the tax. For "the children", ya know...

Posted by tu3031 2009-01-05 15:33|| 2009-01-05 15:33|| Front Page Top

#13 What about chickens and turkeys? Just because they're really dinosaurs, does that mean they don't create methane during digestion?

Posted by trailing wife ">trailing wife 2009-01-05 15:42|| 2009-01-05 15:42|| Front Page Top

#14 Fat vegetarians fart too tax man!
Hint!

Posted by 3dc 2009-01-05 16:00|| 2009-01-05 16:00|| Front Page Top

#15 Just so y'all know, the cattle ranchers out here are taking it seriously and I'd believe them over Green Inc. which would benefit from you all not knowing or caring. The ranchers, however, are only concerned about the short term drop in sales and will recover - you will be the ones paying for the increase.

"Well I don't eat cheeseburgers often so what do I care?" Well its a silly name for a serious pieces of tax legislation which will affect everyone. As far as I know, the biggest consumer of milk is schools. Want a hamburger pizza? Well that is meat and cheese. Jello? You bet its a cattle product. New baseball glove - you can still find made in the USA ballgloves but good luck after this, leather seats, cheese burrito, all cheese, hot dogs, bacon, doggy snacks, bbq ribs, beef broth soups, alfredo sauce, yogurt, so on.

$0.08 per gallon is at the manufacturers site, wait till it shows up at your store or in your meal. 50 Beef Cattle out here is nothin, so then what a larger farm subsidy to save USA's #1 export, more tax money for schools to buy lunch then you get it again. Add that to a proposed gas tax.

This is not Farmer Flyover's problem, this is your problem. Like any industry, tax the producer and the consumer pays for it. It is best to fight stupid acts of legislation before it gets started so it can't be 'premature'.

Posted by swksvolFF 2009-01-05 17:13|| 2009-01-05 17:13|| Front Page Top

#16 Why the 175USD figure?

What is the cost of removing that amount of methane from the atmosphere?

To me this sounds very like just another excuse for the state to extort money from the people.

Posted by Bright Pebbles 2009-01-05 17:48|| 2009-01-05 17:48|| Front Page Top

#17 Wait till you see the tax on

Posted by DMFD 2009-01-05 17:51|| 2009-01-05 17:51|| Front Page Top

#18 no Rosie O'Donnell comments?

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2009-01-05 18:03|| 2009-01-05 18:03|| Front Page Top

#19 Uh, uh, TIME TO JOIN TEDDY ROOSEVELT's "BULL MOOSE" PARTY [no tax on Moosey flatulence]?

Gut Nuthin.

Posted by JosephMendiola 2009-01-05 18:31|| 2009-01-05 18:31|| Front Page Top

#20 Can we impose a moron tax on politicians? It would completely eliminate the deficit.

Posted by DMFD 2009-01-05 19:27|| 2009-01-05 19:27|| Front Page Top

#21 are current crop of politicians is the moron tax on the citizenry. no wonder they spent so much time crippling public education

Posted by Abu do you love">Abu do you love 2009-01-05 20:13|| 2009-01-05 20:13|| Front Page Top

#22 Dear Vegetarian Friends,
I'm eating the cattle as fast as I can. Help me eat them and we can save the planet together.
Best regards,
Darrell

Posted by Darrell 2009-01-05 20:30|| 2009-01-05 20:30|| Front Page Top

#23 There are two additional problems not mentioned in these comments: the EPA can impose these rules WITHOUT ANY ADDITIONAL LEGISLATION. They've been given the "authority" to "regulate" greenhouse gasses, any way they want. Secondly, they've ruled that CO2 is a "pollutant", which means that every one of us is a polluter (animals breathe in air, remove oxygen and exhale carbon dioxide). This is stupid, because CO2 is ESSENTIAL for plants to grow, and secondly to replentish the oxygen supply.

The only solution is to restore the Constitution, which would eliminate the EPA - its formation was unconstitutional in the first place. It removed from Congress the regulation of businesses and governments that are the sole responsibility of CONGRESS and gave it to a bureaucracy unaccountable to the American people. There are still a few people in Congress that helped birth this abortion, and they need to hang for it.

As more and more information becomes available that "greenhouse gasses" other than water vapor have little or no control of the environment, the work of the EPA will look more and more stupid. Don't expect anyone to bring it to their attention, especially not from Congress.

Posted by Old Patriot">Old Patriot 2009-01-05 20:33|| http://oldpatriot.blogspot.com/]">[http://oldpatriot.blogspot.com/] 2009-01-05 20:33|| Front Page Top

#24 Let's dump Education and HHS while we're restoring the Constitution, OP.

There is NO authorization for either anywhere in the Constitution.

And for those who don't give a rat's behind about the Constitution, education, health, and welfare in this country have gone downhill since those departments' invention, even as the costs of same have soared through the roof.

Anytime the gummint gets its fingers in a pie, the cost of the pie skyrockets and the quality of the pie plummets. >:-(

Posted by Barbara Skolaut">Barbara Skolaut 2009-01-05 20:49|| http://ariellestjohndesigns.com/]">[http://ariellestjohndesigns.com/] 2009-01-05 20:49|| Front Page Top

#25 Amen, Barbara.

Posted by DarthVader 2009-01-05 21:17|| 2009-01-05 21:17|| Front Page Top

#26 Can we impose a moron tax on politicians?

I was thinking more along the lines of a bounty.

Posted by Spusosh the Prolific6862 2009-01-05 21:21|| 2009-01-05 21:21|| Front Page Top

#27 Will there be a bag limit, Spusosh?

Posted by Barbara Skolaut">Barbara Skolaut 2009-01-05 21:28|| http://ariellestjohndesigns.com/]">[http://ariellestjohndesigns.com/] 2009-01-05 21:28|| Front Page Top

#28 There better not be a tax on popcorn, or you will have a necktie party on yer hands.

Posted by Alaska Paul 2009-01-05 21:36|| 2009-01-05 21:36|| Front Page Top

#29 Excluding only the 200,000 largest commercial farms, our agricultural landscape is comprised of 1.9 million farms with an average value of production of $25,589 on 271 acres. These operations simply could not bear the regulatory compliance costs that would be involved."

And you can bet that the agribusiness lobby hacks (aka the 'farm' lobby) are licking their chops and doing what they can to support this. Instrumentation and paperwork - right up their alley.

Posted by KBK 2009-01-05 22:38|| 2009-01-05 22:38|| Front Page Top

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