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Obama to lay a tax on Christmas Trees to fund (a new bureaucracy) to promote the image and marketing of CHRISTmas Trees.
As it involves spending I'm not so sure he gets to do this anyway but the story is just too delicious on several levels not to share.
Obama to lay a tax on Christmas Trees to fund (a new bureaucracy) to promote the image and marketing of CHRISTmas Trees.
As it involves spending I'm not so sure he gets to do this anyway but the story is just too delicious on several levels not to share.
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).
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).
