Bill Nye The Unscientific Science Guy Thinks Taxing Cow Flatulence Is A ‘Fantastic’ Idea

We frequently joke that Democrats want to tax everything. What’s that great quote?

“Government’s view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it.” – Ronald Reagan.

So freaking true.

Well, “progressives” (I use the term loosely) are turning it up a notch. They now want to tax cow flatulence.

“Well, this is what we can do and it’s a win-win: to have a fee on carbon. So if you are raising livestock and producing a lot of carbon dioxide with your farm equipment and the exhaust from the animals, then you would pay a fee on that and it would be reflected in the price of meat, reflected in the price of fish, reflected in the price of peanuts,” Bill Nye said in a recent interview with the Daily Beast.

“This would be a free-market way to reckon the real cost of a meat diet to the world,” Nye continued. “But conservatives now are against such a thing because they’re against any regulation, any tax or any government involvement in anything. But again, it won’t last, and a carbon fee would be a fantastic thing for the world.

You hear that? Taxing cow flatulence is a “fantastic” idea.

This is where we’re at. This is another “brilliant” idea from the left’s sharpest minds.

One of the main problems with this entire idea? There’s no true evidence that cow farts are rapidly warming the planet.

As climate scientist Tim Ball has argued, the myth arose because “special interest environmental groups used inadequate data and scientific knowledge to create a false narrative.”

In fact, Ball says:

Methane is 0.00017% of all atmospheric gases and only 0.36% of the total greenhouse gases. These fractions were so small that even people who didn’t understand the science became skeptical of the claims that it was doing harm.

But Nye’s cow farts theory is entirely of a piece with his other expressed views on environmentalism — many of which regurgitate the green lobby’s favorite scare stories.

Exxxxxxxxxxactly. That’s all these people do. They constantly fearmonger. They continue to repeat lies until those lies become a commonly accepted “fact.” Environmentalists have been particularly good at that. How many times have you heard the lie that “97 percent” of climate scientists agree that mankind is causing global warming? It’s hardly even disputed anymore. I took an environmental science class in college, and it wasn’t even up for debate. It was taught as fact. Skepticism was frowned upon.

This is what liberals do. The spread lies and then develop policies based on those lies. And before you know it, you’re paying a tax on cow farts.

h/t Breitbart