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Notably, taxing "cow emissions" would not only make beef prohibitively expensive, but also milk, cheese, and other dairy products.
So long lasagna, pizza, tacos, milkshakes, yogurt, cereal, butter, bread, custard, pudding, cake, chocolate, donuts, ice cream...
So long lasagna, pizza, tacos, milkshakes, yogurt, cereal, butter, bread, custard, pudding, cake, chocolate, donuts, ice cream...
Making the cattle industry prohibitively expensive would not just make beef too expensive to eat. As I noted above, it would also apply to most dairy products. And it would essentially outlaw leather and leather products. No leather car seats, couches, jackets, belts, shoes...
As of 2019, there are 794,221 people employed in the beef cattle industry, and 137,756 in dairy. Average U.S. beef production business employs 1.1 people; average dairy employs 3.3, meaning in addition to 931,997 more unemployed, almost all will be small business casualties.
Bottom line is, Yang's cow farts pipe dream will cost America a million small business jobs, all beef products, all non-egg dairy products and products containing dairy, and all leather products.
We'd be a bunch of beltless, shoeless vegans with no birthday cake and ice cream.
We'd be a bunch of beltless, shoeless vegans with no birthday cake and ice cream.
And this is in addition to him pushing to outlaw gasoline-powered cars, meaning we'd all have to fork over the money for a new car on top of all that. And this is also all on top of that thousand dollars a month per American he wants to add to the national debt.
Of course, Yang's proposal to make products from the cattle industry wouldn't stop at just hurting the cattle industry. Anything that couldn't survive without dairy, beef, or leather products would die. Restaurant franchises, Groceries, apparel companies... a chain reaction.
What would the repercussions be if say, *only* fast food restaurants (which operate largely on beef and dairy products) went under? How many people are employed in America's fast food industry? 4,608,039 employees as of 2019, with annualized employment growth of 3.2%.
How many restaurants would survive in the United States if the cost of all beef and dairy products became prohibitively expensive? How many of the roughly 15,000,000 United States restaurant industry employees would be unemployed?
We freak out if the job numbers come out 50,000 lower than expected in a quarter. Imagine what the stock market and economy would do if they came out 15,000,000 lower. And that doesn't even account for anything not directly related to the production and sale of beef and dairy.
To add to this, Yang also wants us to be rid of all our cars in exchange for some "roving band of electric cars you could just order up." From where? Who owns them? Who pays for them? Where is the money for an industry that will create all that?
But hey, an extra grand a month that comes from the government, which they magic up from big business that totally won't make up that huge revenue loss by jacking prices instead of eating profits. Save it up. You'll need it when the economy collapses.
This looks absolutely delicious, but as you watch this commercial, note that if Andrew Yang had his way, it would be "so expensive people stop eating it."
This too would contain too much dairy product to make it cost productive unless it was priced "so expensive people stop eating it" if Andrew Yang's proposals were to be set into motion.
This burger looks awesome, but face it, how would the franchise survive if all the meat and dairy products that went into products on their menu were "so expensive people stop eating it?" That's apparently what Andrew Yang wants.
