California bureaucrats have announced a new 1 percent tax on restaurant goers meant to help in the fight against climate change.
By Eric Eisenhammer writing at Energy Chronicle
The San Francisco Chronicle reported this “optional” tax is an initiative of the California Air Resources Board, the California Department of Food and Agriculture, and a Bay Area non-profit. The tax has already been embraced by several high-end Bay Area restaurants.
Money from the tax is supposed to go to reduce agricultural climate change emissions.
Such plans are not new for California. In 2016, the state announced its war on cow flatulence. This idea recently gaining national attention for its inclusion in Rep. Alexandria Ocasio Cortez’s Green New Deal.
While the liberals who frequent snooty Bay Area restaurants may like the idea of showing their commitment to environmentalism, whether they will actually pay the tax remains to be seen.
Regardless, how long will it be before liberals in the Legislature make this optional tax mandatory?
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That 1% is just the foot in the door. When the Federal income tax was legalized by the 16th amendment in 1913 the top rate was only 7%. But 6 years later the top rate was over 70% and even the lowest bracket was 4%. https://files.taxfoundation.org/legacy/docs/fed_individual_rate_history_nominal.pdf
Once the government gets their crooked foot in the door the sky is the limit. So whenever they put that foot in the door we should slam the door on their foot… really hard. And vote the crooks out of office!
The best thing that humans could do for Life on this planet is restore sequestered CO2 to the atmosphere. Only the left could turn something so good into a crisis!
Next up, taxing human breathing. Scientist recently discovered human breathing causes global warming. Humans actually breath in oxygen, which is good for the environment and slows global warming. Yet after breathing in, it was found humans now needed to exhale what was in their lungs, and this is OMG Carbon Dioxide! The stuff that causes global warming. The stuff that will kill us all in just 12 years! A 2 cent tax on in-breaths for using up oxygen and 3 cent tax on out breaths for creating CO2 was proposed. A nickel a breath should not be to much to save the planet. Support the Breathing Tax, Vote yes! (sarc)/