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When will those crazy Christians give it up???

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It's a holiday tree - or a solstice tree or a Yule tree... IT IS NOT A CHRISTMAS TREE... but the tax is so wonderful... this should kill that tree industry... right?

Obama Couldn't Wait: His New Christmas Tree Tax

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(n)). 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).

To pay for the new Federal Christmas tree image improvement and marketing program, the Department of Agriculture imposed a 15-cent fee on all sales of fresh Christmas trees by sellers of more than 500 trees per year (7 CFR 1214.52). And, of course, the Christmas tree sellers are free to pass along the 15-cent Federal fee to consumers who buy their Christmas trees.


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The reason for the tax ( 15 cents per tree ) is so the Dept. of Agriculture can,
and I quote: " Improve the image and marketing of Christmas Trees."

( Silence, with the distant sound of crickets in the background...)

It is a well known fact that Christmas Trees are little known in our society...
For them to be accepted, this administration's assistance is sorely needed to bring them into the consciousness of the American People.

I for one, applaud our Dear Leader for his great incite of tackling urgent problems such as this that plague the nation. It's his own, unique way of celebrating the holidays with us all.

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So who armed Comrade Jesse Jackson? Is the whole "Rainbow Coalition" armed with such weaponry, or only the elite shock troops?

I'd like the Intelligence officer in front of my desk speaking coherently in fifteen minutes. That will be all.

I can't wait for the good old days to return when a mealy mouth moderate Bush-clone is back in the White House and we call him a liar and tell the sheeple that only the Communist-approved agenda of the Democrats who will put the smartest and brightest people in to solve all the problems that Cain is too stupid to solve.

It's working for Dear Leader. If only the fickle ingrates could understand.

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Comrades... this old prole is feeling so sad and disheartened. Dear leader has canceled the tax... for now

https://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2 ... -tree-fee/

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The Politically Korrekt Middle of the winter celebration tree
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And the Red Cube Tree-
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Tovarichi wrote:look! Presents under the tree!

Yes indeed. I wanted to put more presents under the tree, but I did not want to cover up the stand. I wanted The People™ to know this was a Real Red™ aluminum tin foil tree, not a fake one.

I had Hope™ that the Amerikan Kommunists would have implemented AlchiCare™ by enabling free booze (for medicinal psychiatric care) as an Entitlement™ .

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Comrades, I am ashamed that this news has come and gone without our politically korrekt Christmas Winter Solstice Carol:



 
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