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| Author: | Californicationdude [ Wed Nov 09, 2011 1:08 pm ] |
| Post subject: | New Tax!.....this time on Christmas Trees |
this is no shit..... Quote: The new fee and board were announced in the Federal Register on Tuesday, to be effective Wednesday. According to the Agriculture Department announcement, the government will impose a 15-cent-per-tree charge on "producers and importers" of fresh Christmas trees, provided they sell or import more than 500 trees a year. now, c'mon man....seriously, 15 cents per tree? wow, is there any phucking thing these cocksuckers will NOT tax? WTF? |
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| Author: | TexasNVegas [ Wed Nov 09, 2011 6:43 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: New Tax!.....this time on Christmas Trees |
Tax cancelled, for this year, by his majesty. |
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| Author: | Xman00 [ Wed Nov 09, 2011 11:28 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: New Tax!.....this time on Christmas Trees |
Tax was wanted by the tree growers, and was going to be used to promote Real trees advantages over foreign made fake trees. ( promote buy American, or at least Canadian, is that a bad thing ?????), I am sure this will be cannon fodder for the talking heads who will leave the out facts ,Like the part of the Growers wanting the tax and just do more screaming into their mics. The facts sure do screw up a good screaming match. There are many small tree farms around me for the most part the owners have abandoned the plots ( stop trimming or maintaining proper growth cutting) so this is a issue that has a local effect around me. NECN: Amy Sinclair) - Piper Mountain Farm in Newburgh, Maine sells around 2,000 fresh cut trees every year along with at least 4,000 wreaths, but grower Jim Corliss says his industry's been in slow decline. "In terms of market share we've gone from 100 to 35 percent." The reason for the drop? Artificial trees. Corliss, who heads up the Maine Christmas Tree Association and is past president of the National Association says more people buy fake trees now because of a very successful marketing campaign. The solution is to fight back with a marketing blitz of their own, paid for with a 15 cents tax on every fresh cut domestic and imported tree, according to Corliss. Growers say the dedicated tax will raise about $2 million a year -- money that will be used to promote the merits of live industry, similar to the dairy industry's got milk campaign. Some fresh tree fans have no problem supporting tree growers this way, but conservative bloggers and many consumers are outraged. Corliss, says he hopes consumers will see the proposed tax the way he does -- a way to preserve open land and American jobs. "That artificial tree is plastic and metal and made offshore." He says that extra dime and nickel would make sure their industry is in good shape by the time smaller trees are ready for market. |
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| Author: | JTF-Bravo [ Thu Nov 10, 2011 12:48 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: New Tax!.....this time on Christmas Trees |
Isn't growing and cutting trees wasteful and bad for the environment? Why is the government meddling in the tree business? Where in the Constitution does the government get the power to do that? |
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| Author: | Spanky [ Thu Nov 10, 2011 3:56 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: New Tax!.....this time on Christmas Trees |
JTF-Bravo wrote: Isn't growing and cutting trees wasteful and bad for the environment? Why is the government meddling in the tree business? Where in the Constitution does the government get the power to do that?  That is some funny shit there. If you are asking then you seriously have zero idea how the US Government system works. |
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| Author: | Mainearborist [ Sun Nov 27, 2011 4:48 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: New Tax!.....this time on Christmas Trees |
It wasn't a tax. That jack@ss with his big mouth and lack of understanding undermined a trade board plan and simple. He should be real proud of himself. As a grower from Maine I would of been more than happy to pay that 15 cents. It was for a promotion like got milk, the pork board ect. |
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