Forum Post: OWS: Here is the ideal NEW legislation to protest... make your voices heard
Posted 13 years ago on Nov. 9, 2011, 11:19 p.m. EST by armchairecon1
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http://www.chicagotribune.com/business/ct-biz-1109-christmas-tree-wars-20111109,0,2983619.story
New Tax on Christmas Trees, just in time for the holiday season.
Why you may ask? No, not to close our budget deficits... but to create the Christmas Tree Promotion Board (seriously). A federally funded agency to market Christmas Trees! (so christmas tree growers can pocket the $$ they already spend on marketing, brilliant)
OWS.. if you are looking for something to protest (ie: lobbiests looking for ways to spend our money), heres a start
Much Ado About Nothing
Bill O'Reilly will have a stroke!
zomg, war on christmas
Yep that 15 cents per tree is going to bust my Christmas budget. I'll have no choice this year but to call off the dinner party I was planning.
i read this.. they are NOT going to do this. the idea was already scrapped.