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Fart tax on cattle
Ananova ^
| 5-9-2008
| Ananova
Posted on 05/10/2008 9:17:49 PM PDT by Westlander
Estonian authorities have slapped a flatulence tax on farmers to compensate the country for the methane gas produced by cows.
Farmers this week received their first 'fart tax' demands asking them to pay for the greenhouse gases their cattle produce.
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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: cattle; freepun; greenhousegases; methane; tax
Coming soon to the USA.
To: Westlander
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posted on
05/10/2008 9:20:11 PM PDT
by
SandRat
(Duty, Honor, Country! What else needs to said?)
To: Westlander
What you bet that if McCain becomes President he will try some of the same nonsense given that he believes the science around the Global Warming scam is settled and he also wants to institute a Carbon Cap-and-Trade system here in the US?
Any takers?
Think he is dumb enough?
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posted on
05/10/2008 9:21:26 PM PDT
by
SoConPubbie
(GOP: If you reward bad behavior all you get is more bad behavior.)
To: Westlander
You can’t make this stuff up. Amazing. If such a tax were applied to humans, I know a couple of people who will go broke.
To: Westlander
This shows the logic of global warming. While the Estonian bovine fart tax is ridiculous, it's no more ridiculous than the cult of global warming.
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posted on
05/10/2008 9:21:50 PM PDT
by
Stepan12
( "We are all girlymen now." Conservative reaction to Ann Coulter's anti PC joke)
To: mkmensinger
You can’t make this stuff up. Amazing. If such a tax were applied to humans, I know a couple of people who will go broke.
You talking to me???
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posted on
05/10/2008 9:24:59 PM PDT
by
SandRat
(Duty, Honor, Country! What else needs to said?)
To: Westlander
After what I ate tonight darn tooting good thing I don’t live in Estonia.
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posted on
05/10/2008 9:25:54 PM PDT
by
A message
To: Westlander
And I had been hearing about what a great job the Estonians had been doing recently in bringing about a competitive market economy...
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posted on
05/10/2008 9:30:59 PM PDT
by
sinanju
To: Westlander
Politicians first. Attorneys second. That should do it.
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posted on
05/10/2008 9:34:13 PM PDT
by
givemELL
To: Westlander
Nothing governments love more than opportunity for new ‘revenue’ enhancements...
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posted on
05/10/2008 9:59:23 PM PDT
by
kingu
(Party for rent - conservative opinions not required.)
To: Westlander
How do they measure how much your cows are flatulating?
To: kingu
Nothing governments love more than opportunity for new ‘revenue’ enhancements...Exactly. And that is all this is. Global warming is not happening, the tax won't stop methane production by natural organic means--in cows or elsewhere, and it only takes from the productive to fuel government.
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posted on
05/10/2008 11:24:17 PM PDT
by
Smokin' Joe
(How often God must weep at humans' folly.)
To: KittyKares
How do they measure how much your cows are flatulating?
That has to be on the list of the Worst Jobs in the World, somewhere below being Keith Olbermann's shrink or married to Ted Kennedy.
Why is it when this article mentioned cow flatulence I automatically thought of Al Gore?
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posted on
05/11/2008 12:01:47 AM PDT
by
LostInBayport
("Anyone whose tax bill goes up feels like it's an increase." - Mass. Governor Deval Patrick, 2/28/07)
To: Westlander; Defendingliberty; Genesis defender; WL-law; Normandy; TenthAmendmentChampion; FrPR; ...
Reminder
This Sunday on C-Span 2:
To: Westlander
Are there actual measurements or is output just assumed?
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