If you can spell it, Obama will tax it.
Obama Couldn’t 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.
Update:
Someone felt the heat and canceled the tax and the promotion. However while doing so they made the following claims:
* The tax was on tree growers, not on customers. (err... so - who ends up paying the tax? Some PR guy failed economy 101 on this item)
* The tree growers really wanted the promotion and are now angry with conservatives for making a big hoopla. (well then, I guess now that the government doesn't get to do a promotion, no one will buy trees, right?)
* It wasn't the White House who initialized the idea. (Because, you know - it's not the White House who bares responsibility to what the executive branch does... oh wait)
* "Completely False and Inaccurate", except for everything written and said which is 100% true...
If this was oh so false, I wonder how it got cancelled the day after making headlines, and who gave that order - the same White-House claiming no responsibility for what its department of agriculture is doing.
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