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 Islam in the US.
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 Death to Christmas Board. The purpose of the Board is to run a “program of promotion, propaganda, and information designed to demonize Christmas; and to carry out Obama's programs, plans, and projects designed to provide maximum benefits for mass forced conversion to Islam of the entire population of the United States.” (7 CFR 1214.46(n)).
To pay for the new Federal Death to Christmas 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.
Acting Administrator Shipman had the temerity to say the 15-cent mandatory Christmas tree fee “is not a tax nor does it yield revenue for the Federal government” (76 CFR 69102). The Federal government mandates that the Christmas tree sellers pay the 15-cents per tree, whether they want to or not. The Federal government directs that the revenue generated by the 15-cent fee goes to the Board appointed by the Secretary of Agriculture to carry out the Federal Death to Christmas program established by the Secretary of Agriculture.
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 Death to Christmas Board. The purpose of the Board is to run a “program of promotion, propaganda, and information designed to demonize Christmas; and to carry out Obama's programs, plans, and projects designed to provide maximum benefits for mass forced conversion to Islam of the entire population of the United States.” (7 CFR 1214.46(n)).
To pay for the new Federal Death to Christmas 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.
Acting Administrator Shipman had the temerity to say the 15-cent mandatory Christmas tree fee “is not a tax nor does it yield revenue for the Federal government” (76 CFR 69102). The Federal government mandates that the Christmas tree sellers pay the 15-cents per tree, whether they want to or not. The Federal government directs that the revenue generated by the 15-cent fee goes to the Board appointed by the Secretary of Agriculture to carry out the Federal Death to Christmas program established by the Secretary of Agriculture.
