The Agriculture Department has listened to the requests of the Christmas Tree industry and is instituting a $00.15 fee on each tree sold or imported for those businesses selling or importing more than $500. worth of trees each year. FOX "NEWS" is spewing the false outrage of Heritage Foundation hack David Addington about the outrageous new tax imposed on Christmas by the Obama administration.
The fee was actually requested by the Christmas tree industry to fund a Christmas Tree Board that will advertise and promote the use of natural trees over that of artificial trees. Really a self-imposed fee and not a tax but by the time Fox starts quoting the Heritage Foundation it can't help but misquote it as being a 15 PERCENT tax which is not on that blog at all but simply made up.
"If it's one thing I think the free market could handle, it's letting people decide what kind of tree they want to buy for Christmas," Addington told FoxNews.com.
Of course the beef, pork, chicken, egg, and milk industries do the same thing but those were all in place before the Kenyan Muslim decided to ruin Christmas