Not just freeze in the dark:

It all started in 2007 when the United States Supreme Court ruled that the gases emitted by belching and farting livestock amounted to air pollution.  The EPA has now taken that ruling and decided to tax livestock operations that have more than 25 dairy cows, 50 beef cattle or 200 hogs at the following rates; $175 for each dairy cow, $87.50 for each beef cow and $20 for each hog.

Let's see, the pork producers in my area have been losing between $20 to $30 per shipped hog all summer long what with the high price of corn that none of us corn farmers were able to get or lock-in for our harvested grain.  Add another $20 on top of that loss and, Hell, they should be able to fly in their corporate jets to Washington and ask (with a straight face) for a bailout from Congress. - Frank James

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