In this case, “flat” is short for “flatulence” in Estonia:
Farmers this week received their first ‘fart tax’ demands asking them to pay for the greenhouse gases their cattle produce. A single cow is thought to produce on average 350 litres of methane and 1,500 litres of carbon dioxide per day from flatulence and burping. It is thought that cattle are responsible for up to 25 per cent of methane gas emissions in Estonia.
How long until progressives in the US propose this “flat” tax as a solution to the world’s problems? They have already been laying the groundwork in California.
HOLY SHIT, BATMAN!
Isn’t Estonia just downwind from Effluvia?
Just down wind from Flatus. Pretty soon, no more cows for Estonia
– Is the world missing a bet on a simple source of fuel for heating, etc. here? New marketing opportunity: “Bovine ass-gas-masks”, that collect the burnable gases, while shuttling the solid effuse to the ground. Sounds like a perfect issue for the Left ass-hats, being that they are sucj experts in political bullshit.
It’s funny how institutionalized the “global warming” ideology has become.
If I live that long (doubtful), when the next Ice Age inevitably creeps up on them, it will be interesting to see if the peasantry goes all “Robespierre” on the “Climate Change Elite.”
I’m with Merovign…it’s almost time to hoist Mencken’s black flag.
Of course, when the farmer’s give up farming cows and turn their land over to growing corn for fuel or building golf courses, and there are shortages of basic foodstuffs, the government will be like totally gobsmacked.
It’s easy to get those two confused. Both were named for the late Roman emperor Flatus Effluvius, more commonly known among historians as “Farticulus.”
Follow the money. Government funding to AGW favorable climatologists, scientific reports issued for media scare mongering and higher ratings, media support for political demogogs, tax increases based on the “crisis”, higher taxes = more social spending, more social spending = more kickback for political parties doing the spending.
The cows are decapitating plants with wanton abandon, then farting in our general direction with no fear. It’s time to organize an international BBQ day, shoot them, grill them, and turn their leftover carcasses into leather jackboots — the better for stomping out invasive weeds amongst the purtier flowers…
They have already been laying the groundwork in California.
Here in the People’s Republic of California we’re almost always on the cutting edge of finding new ways to tax the productive members of society. Much to our chagrin Taxachusetts has raised the bar with the endowments thing, but we’re the old masters at this game and will not be denied.
I blame TACO BELL!!!!Eleventy!!