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Posted on 11/09/2011 11:16:42 AM PST by ColdOne
The U.S. Department of Agriculture is going to delay implementation and revisit a proposed new 15 cent fee on fresh-cut Christmas trees, sources tell ABC News. The fee, requested by the National Christmas Tree Association in 2009, was first announced in the Federal Registry yesterday and has generated criticism of President Obama from conservative media outlets. The well-trafficked Drudge Report is leading with the story, linking to a blog by David Addington, a former top aide to then-Vice President David Addington, at the conservative Heritage Foundation assailing the president thus: “The economy is barely growing and nine percent of the American people have no jobs. Is a new tax on Christmas trees the best President Obama can do? And, by the way, the American Christmas tree has a great image that doesn’t need any help from the government.”
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But the tree lobby is calling the tax a fee and claims it won’t affect prices.
What better way to rid the forthcoming Caliphinate of dispicable Kafers?
See I knew that mac daddy had a plan all along to easy our money problems, Charge $.15 for each xmas tree sold - problem solve now back to planning his next tax payer vacation.
He probably figured out that it helped the Joooos.
...Used to be that way, but, you know that in a "Living" Constitution cells die and are replaced with new cells. Seems some are mutating out of control...
And this is why Big Government may eventually destroy itself.
The right hand does not know what the 3.746 left hands are doing. And by the time it catches on and realizes the political damage that is being caused, it is sometimes too late.
Just another Muzzie bringing the jizyah to the infidels.
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