http://business.financialpost.com/opinion/carbon-tax-killjoys-want-to-tax-our-hamburgers-now-is-anyone-really-surprised the left is no longer satisfied with taxing us for breathing out CO2 which is plant food but their ignorance demonizes it as pollution now they want to tax our beef in order yet again to control what we can and cannot eat and force vegetarianism down our throats and to fight bad weather which we have no control over despite the fact Canada has good standards when it comes to raising beef so this also attacks our farmers who are already under assault from these leftists elite mr Taylor of the financial post did a great job exposing this and some of the highlights include:”
And it’s not just pundits. A report released last December by the British-based investment advisory group FAIRR said, “It is highly probable that over the medium to long term some form of taxation on meat products will be implemented,” and drew comparisons between a possible beef tax and decades of tobacco taxation. A French academic study published this year recommends a 41-per-cent tax on beef specifically to fight climate change. An article from Canada’s EcoFiscal Commission similarly suggested that tax on beef 40 or 50 cent per kilogram. “Making the price of beef reflect its environmental cost is sensible ecofiscal policy,” it reports.
My note:And not to mention how this is going to hurt the poor in the long run:” global green tax on food presents a horrifying moral dilemma. It also threatens to undo much of the world’s remarkable climb out of poverty and hunger in recent decades. Between 1990 and 2009, per capita world consumption of meat rose by 25 per cent, with much of that increase coming in developing countries where residents were able to add animal protein to their diet thanks to rising income. Choking off their access to meat through tax hikes would cruelly deny these people and their families the ability to improve their own health and lives, and seems like the worst kind of Western environmental colonialism. (Claims from meat-tax advocates that everyone can simply eat bugs for protein is just crass — and gross). “
My note:But you know none of these facts matter to the left as long as they can power grab based on lies and deception they won’t care how their ant human policies hurt real people
