This is how utterly stupid the Obama administration is. In the middle of a recession and with almost 10% of people out of a job, his Agriculture Dept. is imposing a $.15 tax on all live Christmas trees sold. The stated purpose is....
From Heritage.org -- “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
Since when does the Christmas tree industry need its market position strengthened? Are there people who are anti-Christmas trees?
Obama just can't help himself. He must raise taxes no matter how ridiculous the reason given. The idiocy of it is that he's ostensibly helping the industry, but he's too economically inept to understand that raising the price will harm the Christmas tree industry. My son is taking an Econ class in high school and he fully understands the relationship between price and demand. Why doesn't Obama?
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