Comments about ‘Christmas tree tax revealed a tone deafness’

Sounds like a congressional issue not the president's. Only Congress has the power to tax. So which senators voted for this tax?

From FOX news

"I can tell you unequivocally that the Obama administration is not taxing Christmas trees. What's being talked about here is an industry group deciding to impose fees on itself to fund a promotional campaign, similar to how the dairy producers have created the 'Got Milk?' campaign," he said. "That said, USDA is going to delay implementation and revisit this action."

The new program was set to go into effect Wednesday. According to the Agriculture Department announcement, the government would have imposed a 15-cent-per-tree charge on "producers and importers" of fresh Christmas trees, provided they sell or import more than 500 trees a year.

The program and fee were supported by some in the Christmas tree industry. The money was not meant to pay down the debt or fund any other program, but designed to go back into the new Christmas Tree Promotion Board.

So Obama's only action here was to STOP the tax. Nice spin trying to say he started it. Don't be liars.

I'm sure even Barack doesn't know what his job role is???!

Are muslim president hate christmas.

Private industry doesn't need government to tax producers in order to promote their product. That is for the private sector to handle. This so-called "tax" is another example of government trying to take over a private sector functions.

More and more intrusion by government.

Christmas tree tax puts feds in a strange place?.

Gas tax puts feds in a strange place?.

Tobacco "sin" tax puts feds in a strange place?.

Porn (sin) tax puts feds in a strange place?.

Toll Roads tax puts feds in a strange place?.

Sugar tax puts feds in a strange place?.

Pork tax puts feds in a strange place?.

Earmark tax puts feds in a strange place?.

Social Security tax puts feds in a strange place?.

Health Care tax puts feds in a strange place?.

Tobacco tax puts feds in a strange place?.

Alcohol tax puts feds in a strange place?.

News Paper tax puts feds in a strange place?.

Phome tax puts feds in a strange place?.

Internet tax puts feds in a strange place?.

Banking tax puts feds in a strange place?.

Fishing tax puts feds in a strange place?.

Hunting tax puts feds in a strange place?.

Eating tax puts feds in a strange place?.

Auto tax puts feds in a strange place?.

Fuel tax puts feds in a strange place?.

Airline ticket tax puts feds in a strange place?.

Homeland Security tax puts feds in a strange place?.

Level the GOP playing playing field?.

Nice rationalization of why there is a new tax that WE get to pay.

There is NO TAX!

I knew yesterday that Obama vetoed this idea. Why did the DN publish this today? Don't they keep up with the news?

What gives DN?

Not a big deal on this kind of tax. I think that everyone should quit cutting trees down. Its a big waste to see all of the trees cut and no one buys them. We need trees. Buy artificial. BEsides, Obama veto on this should have kept this frombeing published.

This tax just shows what is wrong with America. Why is milk taxing us to promote itself, when it is subsidize by us the taxpayer to stay in business? It's simple supply and demand, you'd think a green government would be worried about the harmful hormone milk that we are feeding to our children. Many of the nutrients have to be added to the milk.

Our reality is truely stranger than fiction!! lets legalize pot so we all can read these stories of the ridiculous in a green fuzzy haze, then we can just look at each other and say 'dude!'.. yeah 'dude'

I look it this way Utah.

Christmas tree tax puts GOP Congress in a strange place.

Or does it now?.

"Always keep Christ in Christmas."

You can't tax that.

A Christmas Tree, one can't eat, it's not about Jesus Christ, so tax it to death then.

Get over it Utah.

Stop the whines.

Like you love to do on these taxes.

Tobacco tax puts Utah in a strange place?.

Alcohol tax puts Utah in a strange place?.

For all those that "smoke and drink" in Utah that is.

Let's tax Christmas Trees then, by the inch, from the tip if the tap root, to the tip of the tree.

I love it when a plan comes together.

"The A-TEAM".

Our forests are dying from under-harvest of trees and the environmentalists won't allow reasonable timber harvest. Also the dramatic drop of people connecting with the outdoors is contributing to less harvest. The Tribune had a wonderfully over analyzed article on our dying forests a couple of weeks ago. It made the author a bunch of money by the column inch printed. The bottom line for justifying tree harvest is fire and disease. So to sum up the article: fuel+oxygen+ignition=fire and overgrowth=competition+stress+disease. That's the way nature works. You can manage it or you can use natures way of managing by catastrophe.

"The Christmas tree promotion will be the first to push one type of product fresh-cut trees over another. It would be like pushing 2 percent milk over 1 percent."

No, it would be like pushing Milk over Orange Juice. (Unless both are federally subsidized....)

Obama....this TAX and SPEND POTUS is a disaster.......This guy never saw a tax hike he didn't like! Christmas tax to pay for his new agency is just more big government, from this BIG Government Idiot! Send this guy back to the Chicago Ghettos community organizing and his old salary of $12k per year!

NOBAMA 2012

justamacguy | 10:07 a.m. Nov. 10, 2011
Manti, UT
Our forests are dying from under-harvest of trees and the environmentalists won't allow reasonable timber harvest.

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Us "enviromentalists" are against the commercial clear cutting of forests which wreaks havoc on the environment.

I know Manti doesn't have very many "Christmas"-type trees,
so please let me also explain that the Christmas tree industry farms trees.

The ones you are talking about in the forest are 20-180 feet tall.
I don't know many houses with ceiling that tall.

And for $5-$10 you can go to a U.S. Forest Service office and get a tree-cutting permit and pick out just about any "perfect" tree you'd like within the set guidlines.

By all means...please, do it.

FYI - Our family usually gets a live tree each year.
Potted, not cut.
And we plant them in our Utah desert yard to enjoy for many years to come.
I really like showing the grandkids the tree their daddy got his first bike under.

I find it humorous that you all keep posting nonsense about this being Obamas fault (despite the fact he vetoed the measure) and totally ignoring screwdriver and lanes refutation of the claims being made by evens. I guess when the truth gets in the way you all just choose to ignore it.

Yep,

It proves what I thought a while ago that posters do not register what they read unless it agrees with their preconceived notions.

Read: Obama vetoed this idea. Yes, I said Obama nixed this.

Now, begin raving and ranting about how horrible this president is and how he just wants to tax and spend. Ready, set, go....

Isn't it ironic that when the shoe is on the other foot, all the "libs" do the same thing. They ignore the truth and just keep bashing away with their obnoxious posts.

@ VST: What shoe is on the other foot?