[Gilbo_3]

thats the best you can do ???

maybe youre on the wrong forum, as most around here dont seek the monsters help in cuttin their own throats...

[Reese Hamm]

I thought most people here believed that people should make their own decisions about what to do with their own money and be prepared to suffer the consequences if they screwed up.

As for forcing the little guys to chip in, they are exempt. Only the larger growers/importers pay and the larger they are, the more they pay.

Again, I'm not at all comfortable with the idea of the government helping one industry promote itself over another, but this program has been around for years. It isn't some new power grab by the government. The industry asked for this.

Want it eliminated? Fine, let's work on it. But let's not dress it up as something it isn't just to stir the pot. Call it what it is - a private industry paying for government muscle - and offer up sound, reasonable arguments as to why it's a problem. The "oooo, Obama's taxing Christians" line is just inflammatory rhetoric when we should be the voices of reason and logic.