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Originally Posted by MysticCat
And you passed that article along, participating in the dissimination of inaccurate information.
And here is more misinformation. It is not a consumer tax. It's a commodity check-off, which at most is a tax or assessment paid by the grower, not by the consumer. (I really wouldn't worry about growers passing it on to consumers by raising the price of Christmas trees increasing by $0.15.)
And as noted, it did not originate as a government proposal. It was the growers who proposed it.
I really fail to see the issue -- other than the political one reflected in the article you linked.
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Also, smaller growers (they're mostly small businesses but I'm talking tiny businesses here) that sell fewer than 500 trees annually (typically your "cut them down yourself" farms) will be exempt.