Yes, it’s a rhetorical question: there’s tax money in it. Still…
Obama Administration quietly implements Christmas Tree tax. Gift to industry; bad for consumers. http://t.co/KZkMXR5IWB
— Brian Faughnan (@BrianFaughnan) April 5, 2014
…you’d think that an administration that’s so self-avowedly green would be less supportive of tree-killing. Don’t get me wrong: I have no problem with tree-killing, especially in this context. You want a live Christmas tree? Knock yourself out. My family has made the lifestyle choice of an artificial tree, largely because it’s less messy, easier to set up and knock down, and yes, the fact that I don’t have to throw out what was a perfectly good pine tree every year. But that’s just a lifestyle choice, not Natural Law.
It’s like the Obama administration doesn’t even know how to be liberals properly.
Okay…the tax is supposed to be for marketing and research. I would be willing to bet the tree grower associations don’t see a penny of this money.
We sell live Christmas Trees and our market share has gone up every year. The first year we started, we sold around 90,000 trees. Eight years later, we sold around 175,000 trees. It’s gone up 10 to 15 percent every year.