Posted on 11/08/2011 6:52:57 PM PST by Texas Fossil
President Obama’s Agriculture Department today announced that it will impose a new 15-cent charge on all fresh Christmas trees—the Christmas Tree Tax—to support a new Federal program to improve the image and marketing of Christmas trees.
In the Federal Register of November 8, 2011, Acting Administrator of Agricultural Marketing David R. Shipman announced that the Secretary of Agriculture will appoint a Christmas Tree Promotion Board. The purpose of the Board is to run a “program of promotion, research, evaluation, and information designed to strengthen the Christmas tree industry’s position in the marketplace; maintain and expend existing markets for Christmas trees; and to carry out programs, plans, and projects designed to provide maximum benefits to the Christmas tree industry” (7 CFR 1214.46(n)). And the program of “information” is to include efforts to “enhance the image of Christmas trees and the Christmas tree industry in the United States” (7 CFR 1214.10).
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The link from drudge which looks like it went to Heritage.org only contains and open and closed bracket character.
Wonder what happened?
Muzzie tax on his dhemmi subjects?
I guess he can do this bypassing Congress?
Is this meant to piss off Christians? How about putting a tax on halal meat?
Yep...TAX Only the Christians!
I wonder, too. I’d just linked it on Facebook, especially since Michigan grows a LOT of Christmas trees.
Stupid, stupid, stupid. $.15 TAX on the sale of every fresh-cut Christmas tree if the seller has stock of +500.
Obama the Grinch who stole Christ out of Xmas.
You may very well be correct on that one.
IF anyone can come up with a different, sane purpose for this I’d like to see it.
What if it is a Holiday Tree?
Yeah, the Jizyah tax on the infidels.
Via Libya now the Black Panthers hate him, and via this Christians will, if they didn’t already.
The poor hate him because benefits will be cut, the rich will hate him owing to tax increases.
Gun owners hate him on a new level due to F&F, and gays are pissed because, well.....gays are always pissed.
Jet makers hate him, Las Vegas hates him....gosh who else?
WTF???????????
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President Obama’s Agriculture Department today announced that it will impose a new 15-cent charge on all fresh Christmas trees—the Christmas Tree Tax—to support a new Federal program to improve the image and marketing of Christmas trees.
In the Federal Register of November 8, 2011, Acting Administrator of Agricultural Marketing David R. Shipman announced that the Secretary of Agriculture will appoint a Christmas Tree Promotion Board. The purpose of the Board is to run a “program of promotion, research, evaluation, and information designed to strengthen the Christmas tree industry’s position in the marketplace; maintain and expend existing markets for Christmas trees; and to carry out programs, plans, and projects designed to provide maximum benefits to the Christmas tree industry” (7 CFR 1214.46(n)).
I bought my first fake tree from Balsam Hill last year. I guess it was the right move.
I won’t give that commie one more nickle than I have to.
Hopefully they just fell for satire.
Just what we need...the government running the Christmas tree businesses...what a crock....pretty soon there will be an additional tax on EVERYTHING....ya know...your clothes...your food, your water, EVERYTHING....so the “government” can help PROMOTE THEM!
I didn’t think you can say “Christmas” anymore......
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