Fart tax...More left wing lunacy>>

PatPatriot · Oct 23, 2003

Thursday, Oct. 23, 2003
Greedy Government Won't Get to Tax Flatulence

Stunned by protests and mockery, New Zealand's greedy government has dropped a scheme to tax farmers for their livestock's flatulence.

Farmers, meat processors and straight-thinking people of all stripes formed a Fight Against Ridiculous Taxes to ridicule the leftist government of Prime Minister Helen Clark into dropping the plan, dreamed up by the "global warming" Chicken Littles.

"As livestock belch and emit wind, they release methane, and nitrous oxide is released from their waste," CNSNews.com noted Wednesday. Self-described environmentalists claimed the stinky gases made Earth hotter.

Charlie Pedersen, vice president of Federated Farmers of New Zealand, said, "Farmers will be relieved that the government looks to have finally got the FART tax out of its system."

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WildBill · Oct 23, 2003

Its not really a left-wing idea though, its an economist backed idea. Just like pollution trading and taxing gasoline, intended to force those that harm the market and environment to pay for the costs they impose on society. This does sound silly, but it is a valid point that farmers earn their living doing something that harms the local environment and not paying society for the harm they do.

PatPatriot · Oct 23, 2003

WB...OK I got to take a burrito fart where to send my dollar?
WB for every argument for global wariming there is an argument against...they even say that the world average temp. was warmer 150 years ago than it is now.
There is such a thing of taking something to far.

WildBill · Oct 23, 2003

I didn't make any comment on global warming, its just I read a story on this and they said it was driven by economists who say that the government at its most efficient should do things like this. I agree this whole thing is silly, but at some point governments do have to take action against some who impose costs to society without reparations.