The government is hungry for money - get ready!

[Tigermike 4,286]

I can't say this is another example of the Law of Unintended Consequences. It's just the lawmakers not really caring about people and the burdens placed on them by money hungry politicians and big government.

The government is hungry for money. And it is looking for innovative ways to get it. However, they don't want to take it from you directly. You see that's political suicide. So when we hear about the great 300 billion middle class tax cut that the Obama administration is so graciously planning on granting, we should realize that most of it will be recovered by indirect taxes. For instance: link

"Indirectly it could be considered a cheeseburger tax, but one of the suggestions offered by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) in its Advance Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (ANPR) for regulating greenhouse gas emissions under the Clean Air Act is to levy a tax on livestock."

“The tax for dairy cows could be $175 per cow, and $87.50 per head of beef cattle. The tax on hogs would upwards of $20 per hog,” the release said. “Any operation with more than 25 dairy cows, 50 beef cattle or 200 hogs would have to obtain permits.”

The plan? $175 per dairy cow, $87.50 per beef cow, and $20 per hog.

Now obviously a dairy farmer isn't going to absorb that cost. And if all dairy farmers have to pay it, then it is a cost quite easily passed on to the middle class (and poor) consumer. Consequently this regressive tax will add 7 to 8 cents to a gallon of milk. And the same goes for beef and pork products. Thus a nice little chunk of the promised 300 billion tax cut is recovered (and we're saving the world, so who can complain?).

And the government hasn't once directly taxed you in the process and is able to maintain the fiction that you've been fairly and progressively treated by their tax policy.

Get ready the giant auger is coming and it will be taking a bigger and bigger chunk out of your wallets.

[TigerHeat 9]

I can't say this is another example of the Law of Unintended Consequences. It's just the lawmakers not really caring about people and the burdens placed on them by money hungry politicians and big government.

The government is hungry for money. And it is looking for innovative ways to get it. However, they don't want to take it from you directly. You see that's political suicide. So when we hear about the great 300 billion middle class tax cut that the Obama administration is so graciously planning on granting, we should realize that most of it will be recovered by indirect taxes. For instance: link

"Indirectly it could be considered a cheeseburger tax, but one of the suggestions offered by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) in its Advance Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (ANPR) for regulating greenhouse gas emissions under the Clean Air Act is to levy a tax on livestock."

“The tax for dairy cows could be $175 per cow, and $87.50 per head of beef cattle. The tax on hogs would upwards of $20 per hog,” the release said. “Any operation with more than 25 dairy cows, 50 beef cattle or 200 hogs would have to obtain permits.”

The plan? $175 per dairy cow, $87.50 per beef cow, and $20 per hog.

Now obviously a dairy farmer isn't going to absorb that cost. And if all dairy farmers have to pay it, then it is a cost quite easily passed on to the middle class (and poor) consumer. Consequently this regressive tax will add 7 to 8 cents to a gallon of milk. And the same goes for beef and pork products. Thus a nice little chunk of the promised 300 billion tax cut is recovered (and we're saving the world, so who can complain?).

And the government hasn't once directly taxed you in the process and is able to maintain the fiction that you've been fairly and progressively treated by their tax policy.

Get ready the giant auger is coming and it will be taking a bigger and bigger chunk out of your wallets.

It's about time Big Milk pays their fair share. Everyone's been griping about the high cost of oil, but have you consider the overt greed in the Milk industry? Milk doesn't come from some far-off country where you have to risk your neck to get it out of the ground or from the bottom of the sea. Milk comes from a cow down the street. No one tries to blow you up, cut milk pipelines, steal and nationalize Big Milk's equipment and investment, or in any other way mess with them. So why is milk $4 a gallon?

Cow, rain, grass. Milk. Repeat.

I'm glad the Benevolent Leader and the Leaderette will deal with these crooks and their cronies. Maybe they'll deal with Big Water next...