The national economy is in the toilet. The unemployment rate is above 9%*. Clearly, what this country needs is a 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.
If I made it up, it’d be bad fiction.
H/T to Claire.
*That’s what they admit to, which automatically makes it bullshit. I’ll use the same methods they do (pulling a figure out of my ass) and say the actual unemployment rate is currently 87%.
UPDATE: Ha! That didn’t take long. Heard this on the Jeep’s radio this afternoon. Sounds like Obama decided he’s got enough nicknames, and doesn’t need “Grinch” just before a campaign that would already be deadly enough, if the GOP weren’t committing its traditional pre-election sepukku.
“Delayed”, not rescinded.
I love the Christmas Tree Mob’s (NCTA) statement that this is to “”designed to strengthen the Christmas tree industry’s position in the marketplace; maintain and expend existing markets for Christmas trees;”
I guess they can’t take the competition from Christmas cacti, Christmas Shrubbery, and Christmas Bermuda Grass Lawns. And “expend” (expand?) the market: looks like government-mandated Christmas in July; o/n/l/y/ w/a/y/ I/ c/a/n/ t/h/i/n/k/ t/o/ e/x/p/a/n/d/ C/h/r/i/s/t/m/a/s/ s/e/a/s/o/n/ Urk; just thought of one: We can add “Christmas Expansion” to “nation-building” as an excuse for next invasions and bombings of other countries.
They can have my fake tree with they pry it from my cold dead hands.
Buck.
They should have thought of the affects of it sooner. This thing has gone viral already. Can’t unring a bell. 🙂
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