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Coming Soon… Taxing Farts

Some more change we can look forward to from the department of Tax Anything That Might Cause Global Climate Change, Cooling, or Warming…

President-elect Barack Obama’s advisers have indicated the EPA will require businesses to obtain permits in order to emit more than 100 tons of a pollutant per year. It only takes 25 gassy dairy cattle to hit that threshold in a given year.

The EPA is ruling on whether or not Green House Gas emissions should be classified as endangering public safety. If that finding is made, all GHGs including carbon dioxide, methane and nitrous oxide would have to be regulated under the Clean Air Act.

The problem with this approach is that once an endangerment finding is made, other provisions of the Clean Air Act are automatically triggered, creating much broader, costly regulation of other sectors of the economy, including agriculture.

Soon I won’t be able to eat Indian food with beer.. cause, you know..

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