>>>>>>Fight Against Ridiculous Taxes, or FART: New Zealand wants to tax farmers for the gas emissions of their cattle...
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>>>>>>http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/from_our_own_correspondent/7646857.stm
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>>>>>I've read reports that other countries (including my own) are considering such a thing. It appears that studies show that cattle are one of the greatest contributors to greenhouses gasses...more than driving!
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>>>>>I can just see my uncle's reaction. He owns a dairy farm in Wisconsin and I spent many summers working it when I was young. I don't think greenhouse gasses are even a consideration. If they are, they are WAY down below making the bills, buying clothes for the kids, paying for school, and paying for healthcare...
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>>>>>If we haven't already put the small farmers out of business, this will surely do it. Not only will we be buying our oil from overseas, but our meat and dairy products and every vegetable as well. I just can't see the big agri-corps paying for greenhouse gasses...There's a new lobby in the making.
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>>>>"Climate change" is the best D's excuse rooting for every US-based industry taxed out of existence, especially if this industry is still large and successful. One should not be surprised that in case of Obama administration USA will immediately change position in WTO talks and will call for unilateral removal of any agricultural subsidies by developed countries.
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>>>Can you point out to me, why it is that up here in europe we are taxing the industry for that and they are still in business? Not that I believe in taxes for Climate change, but motivating the industry to less polute the environment is something that should be welcomed by everyone. It stuns me that americans are so obessed with taxes anyways. We pay a lot more taxes over here, but people here are a lot less obsessed with it.
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>>Taxes are the proven way to suppress individual freedom, and many Americans place freedom very high in their priority list.
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>"Freedom is just another word for nothing left to lose"
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>What freedom is lost by taxes? I also value individual freedom, but I fail to see what taxes do change here.

Would you consider yourself 'free' if someone will slap you with 100% tax, and accordingly you will work free (e.g. for food)? This simplification is used exclusively because you were not able to grasp the concept. Hopefully, you understand it now.