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USDA Christmas Tree Tax Takes Effect
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| Nov. 15, 2014
| Rich Tucker
Posted on 11/15/2014 5:42:24 PM PST by PROCON
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Its not a tax, Washington insists -- merely a fee that you have to pay.Hmmm, where have I heard that before?
Paging John Roberts...
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posted on
11/15/2014 5:42:24 PM PST
by
PROCON
To: PROCON
Blame the Republicans for not stopping this tax.
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posted on
11/15/2014 5:45:00 PM PST
by
Dacula
To: PROCON
Using the Gruber logic .... the consumer is too stupid to figure out that they are paying the fee and not the industry.
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posted on
11/15/2014 5:45:17 PM PST
by
RetiredTexasVet
(Put lipstick on a Communist and call it a Progressive, but it's still a Communist with lipstick.)
To: PROCON
Call it an Allah tree. Will it be tax free then ?
To: Dacula
5 years from now it will be $5 per tree etc... etc......
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posted on
11/15/2014 5:46:20 PM PST
by
bigtoona
To: PROCON
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posted on
11/15/2014 5:48:23 PM PST
by
wastedyears
(I may be stupid, but at least I'm not Darwin Awards stupid.)
To: PROCON
A few months ago, the federal government created a national marketing program to advertise the virtues of real Christmas trees. Its funded by a 15-cent surcharge that will be added to the cost of each tree sold If the government insists on doing these ridiculous programs I'd rather have the cost added to the product than assessed on all taxpayers.
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posted on
11/15/2014 5:49:01 PM PST
by
Straight Vermonter
(Posting from deep behind the Maple Curtain)
To: PROCON
Is this a sales tax?
Farmers often pay into state or federal programs that promote a product. It’s a cost. But it is not a tax at the public sales register. Is this?
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posted on
11/15/2014 5:49:13 PM PST
by
Ray76
(We must destroy the Uniparty or be destroyed by them.)
To: PROCON
Trees are grown on private land not government land. Where do they get off taxing that????
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posted on
11/15/2014 5:49:37 PM PST
by
SkyDancer
(I Was Told Nobody Is Perfect But Yet, Here I Am)
To: PROCON
Yet another reason for an artificial tree, or, go into the woods and cut your own. FUBO!
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posted on
11/15/2014 5:50:03 PM PST
by
clee1
(We use 43 muscles to frown, 17 to smile, and 2 to pull a trigger. I'm lazy and I'm tired of smiling.)
To: SkyDancer
Sometimes industries lobby for it.
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posted on
11/15/2014 5:51:19 PM PST
by
Ray76
(We must destroy the Uniparty or be destroyed by them.)
To: PROCON
If they have the authority to impost a 15 cent tax, they can impost a $150 tax. The amount is irrelevant.
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posted on
11/15/2014 5:51:35 PM PST
by
fwdude
(The last time the GOP ran an "extremist," Reagan won 44 states.)
To: wastedyears
It has nothing whatsoever to do with Christianity. It’s just another opportunity for the guv to say “HEY, there’s COMMERCE going on here! GIMME GIMME GIMME!!!!”
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posted on
11/15/2014 5:51:50 PM PST
by
workerbee
(The President of the United States is PUBLIC ENEMY #1)
To: PROCON
The Christmas tree industry requested this initiative to fund Christmas tree research and marketing, So if the industry wanted to do research and marketing why didnt they do it themselves and cut out the Uncle Sam middle man?
Adding government to any endeavor increases the cost and cuts quality of any resulting product.
More likely this is the beginning of a scheme to reduce the number of individual Christmas tree producers and marketers.
A new public-private partnership or put another way; Just more crony capitalism.
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posted on
11/15/2014 5:51:55 PM PST
by
Pontiac
(The welfare state must fail because it is contrary to human nature and diminishes the human spirit.)
To: All
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posted on
11/15/2014 5:53:24 PM PST
by
musicman
(Until I see the REAL Long Form Vault BC, he's just "PRES__ENT" Obama = Without "ID")
To: Ray76
It’s like adding a penny tax to each ear of corn.
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posted on
11/15/2014 5:54:02 PM PST
by
SkyDancer
(I Was Told Nobody Is Perfect But Yet, Here I Am)
To: SkyDancer
Where do they get off taxing that????Because the more tax revenue the gubmint takes in the better it is for the grifters..duh..
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posted on
11/15/2014 5:54:46 PM PST
by
PROCON
(I love sleeping, it's like being dead without the commitment.)
To: PROCON
this is the kind of thing that bugs me, you have all these egg boards and dairy compacts and stuff that need abolished
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posted on
11/15/2014 5:56:25 PM PST
by
GeronL
(Vote for Conservatives not for Republicans)
To: PROCON
Just don’t CUT them...leave the root ball intact and let the customer do what he wants with HIS tree. FUBO
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posted on
11/15/2014 5:56:41 PM PST
by
FrankR
(They will become our ultimate masters the day we surrender the 2nd Amendment.)
To: PROCON
Let me be the first to say it— Bah! Humbug!
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posted on
11/15/2014 5:56:41 PM PST
by
Hugin
("Do yourself a favor--first thing, get a firearm!",)
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