Wednesday, April 05, 2006

New Zealand's Progressive Tax Plan for Cows


New Zealand to tax cattle flatulence. New Zealand farmers are angry after the government announced plans to tax the flatulence of their livestock. Farmers face a levy of up to 25p a head on cattle and 3p on each sheep as part of the government's policy to combat global warming. Methane from the animals' belching from the grass they munch, and nitrous oxide from their dung and urine accounts for more than half of all New Zealand's greenhouse gas emissions. The government will spend the tax it collects from the flatulent animals on researching ways to make them less windy...Free Republic


Now there's a program for Harry Byrd and Al Gore to get their hands on. Maybe Al could invent a car that would run on this product. Instead of VROOOM, would it go MOO? Another possibility is to provide lighting in rural areas. All you'd need would be a cow and a match. Hillary Clinton would probably support that.

And it gets a great deal worse!, according to Peter Langston. Bring back chlordane!

But it's not all bad. The military may have a black project, or was that a black angus project, for organic artillery.

Some of the above may be true.

LF

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

I'm not sure that Senator Clinton would stand behind this project, however.

Ufonzo