Here is my take on this dang stuff.
For the next two years, quit buying those beautiful trees; and do not substitute them with those gawd-awful, tacky, phony ones.
All you folks have enough beautiful decorations saved somewhere in your homes to decorate your homes without that very expensive tree, money you can spend on something else.
Will your children miss it? No. Not unless you keep hammering at it. If they ask, just tell them this year they came with bedbugs or something.
Trust me. You will be a lot happier. In the end, you won’t have to spend all that boring, useless time putting away all those tree decorations again for next year. YECK!!!
Eh...I’m not worried. “Bruce the Spruce” has been a part of our family for 10 years now. Doesn’t look as good as a real tree when he’s NOT decorated, but when the decorating is done, he’s always looked great.
So, Barry the Boob...”THPPPPLLLLTTT!!!” on your stupid tree tax!