Enviros Push Meat Tax | Americans for Tax Reform

Enviros Push Meat Tax | Americans for Tax Reform:
"Environmentalists are targeting your hamburgers and buffalo wings with a “Meat Tax.” 
And they claim they have “never been closer to a meat tax.”

As reported by Bloomberg Law: 

Hamburger addicts, barbecue junkies, and fried chicken fanatics may soon be asked to pay a surcharge for their obsessions with meat.
Excise taxes on beef, pork, and chicken could be the next big thing in a state and local tax environment that’s already comfortable with “sin tax” regimes aimed at cigarettes, alcoholic beverages, and gambling and is adapting quickly to special levies on sugar-sweetened beverages, greenhouse gases, and marijuana..."