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Hubs needs to get up a bit earlier to find interesting (and I use that term rather loosely) things online to email me.  We have his and hers computers, because neither of us wants to share, so he emails it.  Anyway, I was at the already been there, done that stage with reading the article and obsessing over yet another additional possible rise in the prices of meat and milk.

Your friendly, and at your service, Environmental Protection Authority seems to think that if we could just tax pigs (no comment here), beef cattle and cows, there could be rules and regulations on gaseous emissions under the Clean Air Act, a cash cow to call their own.

Initially, I had visions of getting all the animals together and getting them to agree on no more belching, farting or defecating.  Anyway, that isn’t what the EPA has in mind, it just wants tax money.   Plain and simple, it is a fart tax.  If this needs paid on the animals, could we be next?  Oh, we already pay more in taxes than we get to keep, just nothing designated, yet, as a fart tax.

If the EPA does get its way and taxes the animals, the animals are going to tell the farmers they will have to pay for it or go out of business.  Not one of the animals I polled could produce a W-2 form or had a Social Security number.   There was lots of confusion here, the hens were feeling left out and the raccoons thought it was fair they were not mentioned because they did work chewing up leftover garbage and reducing the load on the landfills.

Personally, I blame volcanoes, among other things.  Taxing animals and putting farmers out of work is just not the way to go, especially in our economy.  The taxes will move up the food chain, one way or another.

Here’s the article http://www.businessandmedia.org/articles/2008/20081230165231.aspx