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Originally Posted by Mevara
I never said it was a Bush/Obama plan. I just happened to get the information from a source that pinned it on Obama . . . .
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And you passed that article along, participating in the dissimination of inaccurate information.
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Originally Posted by Mevara
Either way you want to spin it there is still a tax that will apply to Christmas trees to market them to the public. This is about the government charging the American Public to give to another organization for PR.
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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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