I am sure that now demand for those new plug-in electric hybrid cows will go up. Toyota will make a fortune selling them.

If memory serves me right, wasn't Estonia picked as the freest country in the world a couple of years ago? I am sure that now they will go down a few notches in the index, maybe a dozen.

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re: "If memory serves me right, wasn't Estonia picked as the freest country in the world a couple of years ago? "

I'd love a link to that, if you find it.

It could be worse. It could be like a certain shopper bending over to get a couple boxes of Quaker Oats and letting one rip only to get up and turn around to find some gorgious looking woman wrinkling Her nose at You. Boy now THAT is embarrasing.

Larry Mohr

Did that happen to you Larry? It sounds like you write from personal experience.

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Thanks. That article lists every prominent right-leaning conservative/libertarian magazine praising the military dictatorship in Myanmar.

Good find!

Estonia will tax cow farts

Who gets the job of tax collector?

The true "Global Warming Freeks" now taxing attempting the world for profits to whom?:>)

Duh! Look at the Results section.

I plead the fifth.

Larry Mohr

Thats what we need here in the U.S. a tax on cow farts.

We can even appoint a one democrat to stand behind each cow and keep count.


Bee Swell

while crackie here sniffs it:>)

Hmm....I see another Bush Memorial in the making!

Who gets the job of tax collector?

Posted by CalifChris

It's yours if you want it. You do have to take samples on 10% if the cows every week. The milk cows may be easy but watch out for the bulls. Someone told me they like the hang-down things petted.

And I suppose you don't, Sniper?

You are right, I don't collect taxes or play with someone elses balls.

Why would you, Sniper? You seem content with playing with your own. You do seem to have some proprietary interest in the uteri of others, though.

This will backfire. You start taxing farts you only create an incentive for illegal, bootleg farts -- like Canucks who smuggle in American cigarettes

This is a link to a Dilbert cartoon right? with a typo....it was supposed to be Elbonia?

Watch for the government regulations coming in Estonia, insisting that cow-food contain a certain level (high) of fart-inducing stuff!

I just want to know when the enviroinmentalists will start thinking this is a good idea and try to start taxing people's farts. I let go with a good one this morning that would cost me at least $5 in tax money...

...not to mention that I have a friend who would go broke if they taxed human farts.

Hmm, I wonder if you could trade fart tax credits like they do with pollution credits? I know a couple of my female friends that could make a killing selling off their excess fart credits.

How much will the price of beef increase because of this?

JRGUINNESS,

Yeah, but you'd better not make it a flat rate. We wouldn't want to overburden the farting-poor!

What I realy want to know is how taxing cow farts is going to cut down on methane.

Seems to me it will encourage farmers to reduce the size of the heard, increase the cost of milk and beef steaks.

I don't have a PHD so its just a wild-ass guess.

It doesn't cut down on the methane--it is a carbon credit trade off. This is Gore's idea.

SO kill, move or sell all the cows to another country.

What a ridiculous stupid idea.

Next it will be dogs and human farts.

Murphy

Isn't it clear to all? This carbon thing is just another reason to tax. Cap and Trade dosen't do a thing for the enviroment, even if there was a problem.

Yes--Sniper--it is a tax scheme that companies and owners of the cows will pass down to the consumer.


Murphy

mur, I hope they do because if they don't they will go out of business and shazam, no cows.

The real answer is to cut the size of government so they don't gobble up so much money without creating anything.

This has to be a joke.

left wing nut jobs here are just pissed they didn't think of it first!

If methane is soooo bad, why don't we all start building digesters like they do in China?
A digester takes in cow/animal feces and water and gives off methane (that can be captured and burned as a fuel that does not stink) and fertilizer.

When we start doing that, I'll start takeing you liberal whack jobs seriously.

Sniper--Vote McCain as he is the only one who will cut the gov't spending--namely the pork.


Murphy

If methane is soooo bad, why don't we all start building digesters like they do in China?
A digester takes in cow/animal feces and water and gives off methane (that can be captured and burned as a fuel that does not stink) and fertilizer.

When we start doing that, I'll start takeing you liberal whack jobs seriously.

Posted by Marty

Don't look now but they are doing it here in the US. Seems to work well around large feedlots and even some landfills. I don't know about the don't stink part.

sounds like a Borat skit. whatever.

Why not just light them?