Do you own pigs cattle?

[Matt_Jr]

I just finished watching an article on the news and heard that the EPA wants to tax you for every head of cattle/pig. They produce too much methane gas and is contributing to global warming. Did I hear this correct. Taxed for flatulence?

 

[CurlyDave]

I saw the same article and the thing that struck me was that the tax was not going to be used to try to remove any of the methane. It was just going to be used as general government revenue.

Other than raising the price of beef & pork the tax would have no effect at all.

Why don't they try taxing the deer/elk/bears? The could pay me a bounty for shooting some and removing their flatulence from the environment.

 

[chh]

Just another way for the goverment to cash in on the whole global warming hoax and is pushed by the whole animal rights groups. I have been a cattle producer for years as was my father. The current cattle market has most cattle producers looking at a loss or a very thin margin on every animal sold as it is and there is no way for a producer to pass this tax along. Current proposal as I understand it is $75 a head per year.

Do you all like South American or Mexican beef and there food safety inspection or animal health programs? That is where most of the US's beef will come from when they tax American cattlemen out of business.

BTW: Despite all the hype there are 4 agencies that track worldwide temps. 1 of the 4(NASA) is the only one that reports any sign of global warming, and no one has proof that it is manmade. To the contrary they can show temperture variations that occur naturally dating back hundreds of years and the current trend that is being reported is not at all unusual.

 

[SnowRidge]

New Zealand is/was trying to implement that scheme. I don't think there is anyone here seriously trying the same thing. Catalytic converters on the exhaust end of the cows and pigs, yes, but taxes, no. :

 

[wjoerob]

Better watch out! If they're taxing based on flatulence, my wife will be paying taxes on me for years (if you believe my daughter). Personally, I think it was the dog that did it. But she says, "The smeller's the feller."

 

[shvl73]

Do you all like South American or Mexican beef and there food safety inspection or animal health programs? That is where most of the US's beef will come from when they tax American cattlemen out of business.

It does seem as though our government will not stop, trying to eliminate all domestic production of anything.
People do seem to forget the salmonella scare, the melamine in pet food and baby formula...

 

[chh]

It does seem as though our government will not stop, trying to eliminate all domestic production of anything.
People do seem to forget the salmonella scare, the melamine in pet food and baby formula...

Getting our energy(oil) from overseas is working so well, lets move our food supply too!

Here is a clip from my morning farm report:


Drudge Report Elevates Visibility of the possible "Cow Tax"
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Farm Bureau raised the Red Flag as they warned of this being just over the horizon- even as agriculture faces an administration that some fear will be very unsympathetic to production agriculture in the days to come. The Drudge Report has linked on their left column a story (complete with a bovine chewing their cud) about the so called "cow tax" that opens as follows:
"Call this one of the newest and innovative ways your government has come up with to battle greenhouse gas emissions. 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."

Rick Krause, senior director of congressional relations for the American Farm Bureau, warned it's certainly feasible - especially based on the rhetoric of President-elect Barack Obama and the use of the EPA to combat global warming.

 

[deereguy]

Imagine a tax of $5 for a $3 bowl of chili at a chili cook-off event, that might produce some methane. Seems like they want to tax us for everything and animals we own. Your right, if we rely on our food to be imported from overseas we are in much bigger trouble than ever.

 

[mjarrels]

Why do we need to kill farm anamials for food when you can go to the store and buy meat?

mark

 

[deereguy]

Ya got a good point there!!!

The store NEVER runs out and its ALWAYS fresh!!