Forum Post: Obama Adminstration to impose Christmas Tree Tax???
Posted 12 years ago on Nov. 9, 2011, 9:31 a.m. EST by guru401
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This has to be a joke?!?
http://blog.heritage.org/2011/11/08/obama-couldnt-wait-his-new-christmas-tree-tax
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).
To pay for the new Federal Christmas tree image improvement and marketing program, the Department of Agriculture imposed a 15-cent fee on all sales of fresh Christmas trees by sellers of more than 500 trees per year (7 CFR 1214.52). And, of course, the Christmas tree sellers are free to pass along the 15-cent Federal fee to consumers who buy their Christmas trees.
Where is that news item from, the Onion? Wonder how they will collect a tax from private businesses doing things all in cash then gone by Dec 25? Could cost more to collect $.15 a tree then it's worth.
No shit? a 15 cent tax??? Well that settles it...the damn thing will be passed onto my Christmas tree purchase which totally crashes my entire Christmas budget. I had some major dinner plans with a lot of celebrities from Hollywood....guess that puts the kibosh on that dinner. So its back to a dumpster dinner for me. LOL
From that powerful social commentary, the movie "Popeye"
The Tax Man: You just docked?
Popeye: I has.
The Tax Man: Ah ha, let's see here, that'll be 25¢ docking tax.
Popeye: What for?
The Tax Man: Where's your sea craft?
Popeye: It ain't no sea craft, it's me dinghy and it's under the wharf.
The Tax Man: Ah ha. ahh-ha. This your goods?
Popeye: They is.
The Tax Man: Yeah. You're new in town right?
Popeye: If you call this a town, yes.
The Tax Man: Well, first of all, there's 17¢ new-in-town tax, and there's 45¢ rowboat-under-the-wharf tax, and one dollar leaving-your-junk-lying-around-the-wharf tax, so all together, you owe the Commodore $1.87.
Popeye: Uh, who's this Commodore?
The Tax Man: Is that the nature of question? There's a nickel question tax.
TRUE
http://www.federalregister.gov/articles/2011/11/08/2011-28798/christmas-tree-promotion-research-and-information-order#h-10
Surely this has to be a joke? Although, with those ears, Obama could be one of Santas elves???
This is a joke, yes? I thought Heritage was a right-wing organization?
A tax on religion. How many Muslims have Christmas trees to tax?
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