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In a massive power grab the EPA is attempting to tax all sources of greenhouse gasses. If your cow farts they want your money. Same goes for your pigs. Your house. Anything. In this battle the USDA, and virtually all other US government departments, are on our side fighting against the USDA. If the USDA EPA has their way it would impose an annual tax of $20 per pig and $87.50 per cow. Who knows how much they’ll tax your home or wood stove but you can bet once they get their slimy claws into your life they’ll never let go.

I had planned to do a more detailed analysis and post about this but with winter coming on I’m rushing to finish up fall projects here on the farm.

Go post comments on the Federal Registry immediately. Comments are due Friday November 28th, 2008. Please oppose the EPA’s power grab. If you think the current financial crisis is putting a damper on the economy you haven’t seen anything. The EPA’s emissions tax will kill the American economy without solving pollution or global warming in the slightest.

For an easy to use form to voice your opinion click here.

You can read more about it here as well.

You can find the EPA document here in PDF format.

My comment is below:

I am opposed to the EPA’s proposals for regulation of greenhouse gases which will create onerous regulatory hurdles to doing business, raise prices for consumers, destroy our agricultural sector, plunge our economy into a deep recession all while failing to solve the pollution or global warming problems. Additionally the EPA is totally failing to recognize that most farmers have enormous acres of forests and fields that are soaking up greenhouse gasses. We are the solution, not the problem. The EPA proposal is nothing more than an egarious power grab that must be stopped dead.

Act now - go to the Federal Registry and click on the yellow balloon to leave comments. Be sure to click “Next Step” at the bottom after entering your comment. Then on the next page click “Submit” to make sure your comment is submitted.

Note: The Federal Registry site sometimes breaks links. If the above link does not work for you then go to the Federal Registery site and enter the docket number:

In the left column there will then be a link for “Proposed Rules”. Click it. This will get you to “Regulating Greenhouse Gas Emissions Under the Clean Air Act”. Click that. Then you can make your comments as described above.

Proponents of NAIS often diss our cautions about NAIS, animal ID and RFID Chip Implants Apparently they don’t bother to read the news. RFID Chip implants cause cancer - even the Washington Post has reported this fact. The Cidiots say that okay because it’s for animals not people. Cidiots like that are wearing blinders and don’t bother following the news:

AIDS patients may get microchip IDs in Indonesia

JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) - Lawmakers in Indonesia’s remote province of Papua have thrown their support behind a controversial bill requiring some HIV/AIDS patients to be implanted with microchips - part of extreme efforts to monitor the disease.
-Excite APNews

Then the Cidiots say that well, that’s outside the USA. We would never have that in the United States of America. Again, they’re not keeping up with the news:

Former Wisconsin Gov. Tommy Thompson has volunteered to get an RFID electronic chip implant to show the world just how safe the new technology is.

The former secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services in President Bush’s first term sees it as a potentially life-saving move because the chip will have details of his medical history should he ever be in an accident. Thompson will be among the first humans to get the chip. Pets have been routinely chipped at pounds and veterinarians’ offices in recent years.
-WorldNetDaily

However, interestingly Mr. Thompson has decided that he doesn’t want the cancer causing RFID Chips implanted into his body.

Hold off on that chip, says Thompson

WASHINGTON – When former Secretary of Health and Human Services Secretary Tommy Thompson joined the board of directors of a company promoting the broad implantation of microchips into Americans for identification purposes, he pledged to get chipped himself as an example. But Thompson doesn’t appear to be in any hurry to get the implant.

Last July, Thompson, who now sits on the board of VeriChip Corp., the leading manufacturer and promoter of the technology, encouraged Americans to get chipped so their electronic medical records would be available in emergencies.

“It’s very beneficial and it’s going to be extremely helpful and it’s a giant step forward to getting what we call an electronic medical record for all Americans,” he told CBS MarketWatch.
-WorldNetDaily

Turns out he never did get chipped. Interesting how he pushes it so hard for other people… Perhaps the fact that he has a conflict of interest as a board member of Verichip is why he is pushing chips for people. This is so typical of the revolving door between Big Corporations and bureaucracy. Greed is the root of all evil and Tommy Thompson’s got a hefty dose.

The Bush administration on Thursday urged a federal judge to dismiss a lawsuit brought by a group of Amish farmers in Michigan claiming RFID chips required on cattle “are a mark of the beast.”

The Amish farmers claim Michigan regulations requiring them to use radio frequency identification devices on their cattle “constitutes some form of a ‘mark of the beast’ and/or represents an infringement of their ‘dominion over cattle and all living things’ in violation of their fundamental religious beliefs,” according to the farmers’ lawsuit filed in September in U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia.
In response to the charges, the United States Department of Agriculture wrote (.pdf) Thursday that its RFID tagging program is a voluntary measure to help agricultural officials track bovine and other livestock diseases. The USDA said the lawsuit should be directed at Michigan, which adopted RFID requirements last year.

The case should be dismissed, the administration wrote, “because plaintiffs cannot establish that any rule issued or action taken by the USDA either mandates the use of RFID tags on livestock located within Michigan, or, conversely, prevents the Michigan Department of Agriculture from granting appropriate religious exemptions imposed by that department.”
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-Wired

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Hat tip to Lee.