Industry Places Fee on Itself to Promote Advertisement, Right Wing Claims Obama is Taxing Christmas Trees

Back when George Bush was president, and America was still free and a land of limitless liberty, Christmas tree growers were facing declining sales.  So the National Christmas Tree Association conducted a study, and concluded the best way to keep the industry from dying off was to create a check off program by the USDA to fund research into marketing Christmas trees.  Beef, chicken and egg industries have all done the very same thing.

Three years later, the program is set to go into effect.  The USDA is to collect a 15% fee from tree growers to fund marketing efforts.  But something has changed.  A Democrat named Barack Obama is now president.  This can only mean one thing according to Fox News, Drudge and the craziest of crazy right wing idiots: Obama is taxing Christmas trees because he "hates Christians."

An industry self induced fee program that began under George W. Bush means Obama hates Christians.  How can any sane person ever watch Fox News or vote Republican?

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