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).
See, it's a charge, so it's not a tax, so it does not have to be legislated through Congress, as new taxation would. And the money is being used "to strengthen the Christmas tree industry’s position in the marketplace" because there has been such a rash of new products in December that has taken from the Christmas tree's market, like . . . um . . . you know, other stuff.
Because Christmas trees have gotten a bad rap, ever snce one was spotted at Occupy Wall Street defecating on a police squad car.
I am curious to see who is named to the Christmas Tree Promotion Board. Jews? Muslims? Environmentalists? Or wait - is this actually a move to diminsh the demand for Christmas trees and thereby bring about the new Green Society where instead of bringing Christmas trees into our homes, we must go live among them. Because evidently the society that the 99% want involves a helluva lot of camping.
This is going to do marvels for Obama's popularity . . .
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Do you know how much I despise that 1/2 white asshole?
So this must mean that we are going to have a "Christmas Tree" in the white house this year. He said he was going to circumvent congress......here we go.
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