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Obama's NEW CHRISTMAS TREE TAX

Posted: Nov 8, 2011

This is beyond the pale in its audicity -- and political STUPIDITY.

With everyone out of work and/or broke, now only ~46 days before Christnmas, Obama imposes a 15-cent-per-tree tax for sellers of over 500 trees to pay. OF COURSE, LIKE ALL SUCH TAXES, this will be passed on to the CONSUMERS, resulting in HIGHER PRICES.

What an unbelievably STUPID move poitically -- this one will go down in the history books. Everyone is already calling him "Grinch."

Now watch and laugh as all the Obama supporters attempt somersaults trying to justify this. LMAO!

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A very funny post, to be sure - ever heard of the Tourism Board?

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Or "Pork, the Other White Meat?" Are you not aware that industries often have organizations that promote and research their product? Businesses pay dues to the Chamber of Commerce. Good grief.

CoC dues are NOT TAXES. - Unbelievable!

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Do you know the definition of a TAX? Do you know the difference between a TAX and a VOLUNTARY FEE/MEMBERSHIP DUE?

Apparently not.

This was actually begun under Bush but has not - mthead

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been driven by either president; rather, it is an idea spawned by the Christmas tree growers themselves to fund research into what is driving the erosion of the real trees' share of the market. Moreover, this is not an attack on Christians as the Christmas tree has its roots in paganism. But thanks for putting that out there; now I know where the next loony idea will come from within my loony-tunes Faux News-watching family and am now better prepared to dispel, yet again, another nonsensical idea they got from the right-wing propaganda machine that they call "news." I appreciate your help.

Yes, we need RESEARCH into Christmas Trees! - Realist

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That's what this coutnry REALLY NEEDS! Not JOBS. No, we need RESEARCH INTO CHRISTMAS TREES and a NEW FEDERAL AGENCY to oversee it. (And more NEW TAXES to drive the NEW BUREACRACY.) And, of course, we need a NEW CHRISTMAS TREE CZAR (from CAESAR) to manage it too.

Leave it to you double-digit-IQ, brainwashed libs to not see how stupid and WASTEFUL this is.

I admire your awesomeness and triple-digit - IQ-oh smart one

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so what's with the RIDICULOUS post??

On an MT BOARD???

Shouldn't your GIANT BRAIN be doing something more USEFUL than slumming it here with us UNEDJAMACTED folks????

And what's with the CZAR nonsense?????

Hilarious.

Not that your snarky post deserves a reply - mthead

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but here goes: I went to the christmastrees.org website. They spell it out there for all to see, even you smart people like yourself. The growers have been concerned b/c they are losing market share to artificial trees and want to retain their place in the market. In order to fund research and a PR campaign ala "got milk" and "the other white meat" they are asking each GROWER to pitch in 15 cents per tree. Smaller growers will be exempt if they choose. The people overseeing the funds and funding the research are the christmas tree growers themselves. And once again, if you have to bring politics into it, this idea arose during the Bush administration but STILL has nothing to do with presidential politics. But believe what you will. I was only trying to put the facts out there.

Since you're bringing jobs into this discussion - mthead

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consider that perhaps if the growers could find a way to increase their market share (in decline since the advent of pre-lit Chinese-made trees) they may be able to put a few more AMERICANS back to work. We get our trees from local farms every year and these places are a beehive of activity. They are largely seasonal jobs, to be sure, and probably don't pay all that well, but they feed AMERICAN WORKERS' families for the season.

Far be it for me to inject a little reality - into your bias

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This isn't an Obama "thang" but those facts won't really matter to you will they?

Obama WITHDRAWS NEW CHRISTMAS TREE TAX - Unbelievable!

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Amidst a huge NEGATIVE reaction, the Obama administration wised up and has postponed the new Christmas Tree Tax.

Whoever proposed it in the first place should be CANNED for not recognizing that it was political suicide.

Well, Obama is "smart" with no common sense. The - whole administration has that problem.nm

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Much ado about nothing. Obama not even in the conversation. - mthead

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