“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.

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 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.”

Kate Galbraith, correspondent for The New York Times, noted on the Times’ “Green Inc.” blog that such a “proposal is far from being enacted” and that the “hysteria may be premature.”

Hysteria? Is Kate serious, or was she oxygen – or rather methane deprived – as a child? What’s next? Let’s see, I’ll bet New York City will be the first to come up with the “fart tax”. Think about it? Especially in areas such as Little Italy and all those Italian sausages. Then we can train forest rangers to detect “Bear farts”, etc. Man there is no end to the cash, er, cow.

You know one of the reasons I don’t believe we evolved from apes is that even apes are not this stupid. Liberals yes, apes no.

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