The latest climate-friendly tax being proposed in the Danish parliament focuses on the methane emissions that come from cattle when they break wind. The agricultural methane tax is certainly one of the more controversial measures currently being considered by the government.
The Tax Commission, which is behind the measure, estimates that each cow releases around four tonnes of methane each year simply by passing gas. In comparison, the average car emits just 2.7 tonnes of unwelcome emissions per year. Naturally, the Agriculture Council and many other groups have been lobbying hard against the new proposal.
Beef and dairy farmers estimate that the methane tax would increase the operating costs of Denmark’s agriculture industry by a whopping 2.7 billion kroner annually. Yet the methane tax would only provide the government’s coffers with 500 million kroner in tax per year, according to the JP news agency.
Denmark’s political parties are lining up on both sides of the issue, with the Danish People’s Party and the government’s Liberal Party both fearing the tax will increase prices of domestic produce. The Tax Commission, however, contends it’s a necessary step if Denmark is to meet its ambitious climate goals. It feels the agriculture industry should not be treated differently from any other industry over emissions.
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>When the coal plants are taxed, do you think they will just eat the loss, or will they pass it on to the consumer?
So you do understand the reasoning behind this sort of tax :) .
It is stupid enough to be a joke, but I am afraid it is not. This cartel of globalist politicians are determined that we need to suffer under a global food shortage…in order to beat the people into submission. The Brits were warned last year to expect one. And they were already rationing rice in America and using propaganda to say that good Americans should not be “hoarding” food.
The only thing that confuses me is how the people of the world constantly permit these politicians to run roughshod over the populace. People are already struggling under the burden of grotesque inflation, but it is never mentioned in the press as such. Instead, there is always some phony excuse as to why prices are rising. In America, hundreds of thousands of homes are without electricity because people can’t afford to pay the bill…and yet the politicians are talking about taxing coal plants into “bankruptcy”…”for the environment”. When the coal plants are taxed, do you think they will just eat the loss, or will they pass it on to the consumer? Most people in America only have one electrical service provider to choose from.
There is a coordinated worldwide effort to starve and impoverish the citizenry. Much of it is being done under the guise of environmentalism. The rest is being done under this economic crisis that the politicians and media blame on the average, so-called irresponsible citizen. Beware!
Not sure why it should be. Assuming those figures are correct, 1 cow = 1 SUV.
The problem is that this sort of thing needs to be applied as a tariff on meat/milk rather than a tax per head of cattle. If you do the latter then you just shift the farming abroad, which does nothing to reduce consumption of the offending item.
Is this a joke?…