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Agriculture Department Imposes Christmas Tree Tax
Agriculture Department Imposes Christmas Tree Tax
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A 15-cent tax on Christmas trees [has been imposed] in order to pay for a new board tasked with promoting the Christmas tree industry.
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The board, proposed earlier this year, is the culmination of a years-long effort by the fresh Christmas tree industry to promote itself, according to the background provided in the Federal Register. The industry has faced increasing competition from producers of artificial trees, but efforts to collect voluntary contributions for a fresh-tree marketing campaign have repeatedly run out of funding. So the government stepped in to mandate a fee to support the promotion board.
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This really ticks me off. The government should not be getting involved with this. This is ridiculous!!! As it says in the article "it's inappropriate for the government to be putting its "thumb on the scale," helping out the fresh-tree sellers and not the artificial-tree sellers."
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Last edited by Mevara; 11-09-2011 at 03:28 PM.
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