Looks like the White House Scrooge wants to hang some tinsel on every fresh Christmas tree in America: a 15 cent tax. You read it right! This is not a Joke. But of course, Scrooge is calling it a “fee,” not a tax.
Obama’s Sec. of Ag wants to appoint a Christmas Tree Promotion Board to run “a program of promotion, research, evaluation, and information” to market the Christmas tree industry. No kidding! Obama wants the feds to handle promotion and public relations for Christmas trees, and they want to tax every fresh tree sold 15 cents. Seriously?
Oh, yes. But it’s all okay because tree sellers could pass along the 15 cent tax (I call it graft) to consumers. It’s just 15 cents, after all. So who among us thinks the Christmas Tree Promotion Board wouldn’t evolve into a full-fledged federal agency with all the fraud, deceit, corruption, wastefulness and inefficiency that exists in most federal agencies?
No matter what Scrooge calls it, it’s a TAX. And we don’t need to send the government any additional tax revenue to fund their dim-witted ideas, like running the Christmas tree industry. Are Scrooge and his Czars really that daft??
The story is this. Many businesses in the Christmas tree industry don’t want to participate in ANY tree promotion program. The industry tried more than once to collectively conduct advertising programs based on voluntary contributions. Every time they tried it the revenue declined to the point where the programs were ineffective. The tree sellers decided they didn’t want to participate. And that should have been the end of it.
But what does Scrooge do? He creates a mandatory tax to force compliance of a program that the businesses involved do not want.
It appears that Obama does not understand free enterprise. Surprised, anyone? In addition to forcing us to purchase his version of health insurance, he also wants us to pay a “tree tax” to support a government promotion scam that failed to entice voluntary contributions.
How many jobs are expected to be “created?” None, except more government workers to enforce the Christmas Tree Tax boondoggle. Instead of shrinking government, Scrooge is determined to expand it. Oh, Big Government, ain’t it just great?
After this Ghost of Christmas Future story was picked up by The Drudge Report, more than a million people read it. The outrage was swift and fierce, and Obama’s Christmas Goose was cooked. Scrooge decided to delay hanging his Christmas tree tinsel tax on your fresh tree while the Dept of Ag “reconsiders” its position.
If Drudge hadn’t highlighted this and if Americans hadn’t thrown a not-another-tax-fit, a new mandate and tax from the feds would have come to pass without our knowledge.
The Power of The People, doesn’t it just give you a Holiday Tingle?
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Thursday, November 10, 2011
Friday, July 8, 2011
CRUCIAL REMINDER - VOTE WEIX ON JULY 12TH!
Your vote for Isaac Weix in the July 12th primary next week
IS a vote for Sheila!
IS a vote for Sheila!
The left does not want you to know this
and they do not want you to vote next Tuesday
because if you do…
and they do not want you to vote next Tuesday
because if you do…
Sheila Harsdorf WINS…GAME OVER!
Do you want all this RECALL foolishness to be over?
Then get all of our conservative friends and family to the polls and…
Do you want all this RECALL foolishness to be over?
Then get all of our conservative friends and family to the polls and…
VOTE FOR ISAAC WEIX JULY 12TH!
Now – Send this to everyone on your contact list every day…
Email-m, Call-m, Facebook-m, Twitter-m, Smoke Signal-m,
Now – Send this to everyone on your contact list every day…
Email-m, Call-m, Facebook-m, Twitter-m, Smoke Signal-m,
but get the word out to everyone!
VOTE FOR ISAAC WEIX NEXT TUESDAY AND…
HARSDORF WINS THE PRIMARY!
Let’s end all this recall madness and enjoy our summer!
HARSDORF WINS THE PRIMARY!
Let’s end all this recall madness and enjoy our summer!
Sheila's name will not be on the ballot.
Shelly Moore and Isaac Weix are the only names on the ballot.
Anyone and everyone can vote in this primary,
no matter what party affiliation you may have,
no matter what your political positions are.
EVERY VOTE WILL COUNT!
(The Harsdorf campaign has not endorsed this.)
This is a grass roots movement of Conservatives who are fed up with the recall fiasco.
We do not need Moore Taxes and Moore union control of Madison.
We do not need Shelly Moore representing the 10th District.
VOTE WEIX ON JULY 12TH.
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