Over the last 80 years, various gangs of Danish political elite have disgorged a lot of poisons into the world, whether it was the war crimes in Indonesia circa 1948, or the series of attacks former Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte engaged in and attempted to expand on farmers -- including an attempt to make them cull their stock by 30 percent by 2030 – or his attacks on mink-breeders, and freedom in general, with his immoral COVID lockdowns.
And with Rutte now fail-graduated to head the oh-so-trustworthy North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), the Dutch thugs are ready to carry on his legacy: attacking farmers and consumers, and freedom in general, under the goonish guise of battling the bogeyman of Anthropogenic Climate Change.
Paul Schwennsen writes for The Daily Economy (a publication of the American Institute for Economic Research – AIER), that the Danish government is ready to bleed farmers and consumers more, via the world’s first “cow emissions” tax, a methane tax that, because the Climate Cult infrastructure of taxation so-far has been building around the also insane idea of a “carbon tax,” is being forced on ranchers and milk producers via the usefully malleable term “carbon equivalent.”
Reports Schwennsen:
“Denmark, according to The New York Times, is going ahead with its livestock ‘Burp Tax.’ Though hotly contested, the Danish government has nevertheless finally settled on levying farmers 300 kroners (~$43) per ton for carbon dioxide emissions, ramping to $106 per ton by 2035. As is the case with many of these farm-targeted green interventions, the action is ludicrously ineffectual at addressing the trumped-up problem, while remarkably effective at further cementing state controls over economic production.”
Wait, you might say, doesn’t the Climate Cult’s anti-cow crusade revolve around methane, expelled by cattle via belching and flatulence in an evil, cattle-herd plot to melt the world?
Yes, they actually are talking about methane. But this is where Rutte’s Rabble gets even slicker than the typical Climate Cult crew.
See, for years, the climate fascists claimed that human-released CO2 was going to make the Earth boil. They tried virtually every vector of attack to sustain their ribald nonsense, including Al Gore’s filmic deceptions about the temperature record, redefining the word “hurricane” to allow for claims of more hurricanes (and imply that the cause is CO2), and communications with other members of government-subsidized “research” groups to figure out how to “hide the decline” in key world temperature datasets.
The goal, of course, has been to claim that carbon-dioxide emissions are harming the planet, and, thus, they require government man-handlers to tax us for our use of cheap, portable, efficient carbon-based energy. As I’ve written for MRCTV, the central-planners who want to run our lives through so-called “regulations” (aka mandates), through subsidies to anti-market, unattractive fascist “green” projects, and who want to tax us to shape our behavior, have pushed their CO2 set-up so long, they’ve created out of thin air (pun intended) a so-called “Cost of Carbon,” which the Biden Administration has set at $51 per metric ton of carbon dioxide.
But, since methane is the new bogeyman that the Cult is pushing, and the one-world-one-giant-regulatory-blob mob has not yet established a similar fake “cost of methane,” the geniuses in The Netherlands are using CO2 as a proxy, claiming that methane works like “X” amount of CO2 to usher-in Armageddon.
Writes Schwennsen:
“Cows stand accused of emitting 5.6 metric tons in annual ‘CO2 equivalent’ emissions.”
Yes, CO2 “equivalent.”
Such ridiculous language might give one the impression that the Cult has become desperate, but this would be a major error for anyone who supports freedom.
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The very existence of a government-created “Cost of Carbon” that can and will be imposed as a tax on human industriousness, and human industry itself, is sufficient to indicate the already achieved depth and reach of this government-created money grab monster.
With witty aplomb, Schwennsen utilizes subtle puns to mock the Dutch plotters while warning the rest of us. He even attempts to address the cultists on their own level, pointing out that their own argument about cattle doesn’t even stand, according to their “emissions problem” mythology:
“All this politically motivated tabulating and assessing completely ignores the other side of the ledger, the growing recognition that grazing livestock have a complex, largely offsetting (and quite probably net-positive) impact on overall carbon emissions. Nature, after all, doesn’t work in simple equations and we are woefully under-informed about the rich and inherently unmodelable world of stochastic ecology.
The New York Times, by way of perspective, accounts for 16,979 metric tons of its own, meaning that it, as a single company, has the footprint of ten Danish dairies. What would readers of ‘All the News That’s Fit to Print’ have to say about an annual tax of $730,000 a year, ramping to $1.8 million, being added to the newspaper stand price? Advocates of a free press might well ask why the government was using state power to make the newspaper of record less competitive.”
And, finally, Schwennsen observes the fascist goal of this new tax that will cause massive harm to ranchers, consumers, and the truth.
“But in any case, climate science and cow farts aren’t really the issue here. The issue is essentially about control, and who gets to occupy the commanding heights of a centrally managed economy. ‘A tax on pollution has the aim to change behavior,’ says Jeppe Bruss, the Danish ‘green transition’ minister in an unguardedly candid moment.”
That’s exactly it. The tax serves three purposes. It continues to push the canard that mankind’s efforts to engage in free trade and private property respect are dooming the earth, placing it in a “greenhouse” of anthropogenic CO2 and methane emissions. They’ll keep saying it, and back it up with their fantasy “Cost of Carbon” nonsense.
Second, it takes our money.
Third, it gives the central-planners more power to mold human behavior, using the stick of tax penalty to ward-off human endeavors they despise.
It’s all based on aggression and fraud.
Which makes sense, considering that this idea in The Netherlands germinated under Mark Rutte, one of the most aggressive and underhanded political leaders that nation has suffered in many decades.
How wonderful that he heads up NATO, now.