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Does Biden Hate Christmas? He Once Tried to Tax Christmas Trees

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Does Biden Hate Christmas? He Once Tried to Tax Christmas Trees

Joe Biden’s choice for the head of the Department of Agriculture attempted to put a big tax on Christmas trees.

Tom Vilsack (D.), is the former governor of Iowa. He was also the agriculture secretary under Obama’s administration when Joe Biden was Vice President. During this time, he implemented a 15-cent tax on every live Christmas tree in the United States in 2011. After widespread criticism, the Obama administration paused the tax just one day after it was implemented. They completely stopped it the next week.

According to Vilsack, the Christmas-tree tax was intended to subsidize a $2 million advertising campaign that promoted real Christmas trees over plastic ones that were becoming increasingly more favored. It was also supposed to be used to fund research into growing trees that shed fewer needles.

Did he really think we needed a tax to promote Christmas?

Then-senator Jim DeMint (R., S.C.) said Vilsack’s tax was “the stupidest tax of all time.” He also questioned the need for a government-backed advertising campaign for one of America’s favorite Christmas symbols.

“Does anyone in America—anyone?—believe that Christmas trees have a bad image that needs taxpayer-subsidized improvement?” DeMint asked.

Rep. Steve Scalise (R., La.) called the tax a “smack in the face” to anyone who celebrates the holiday.

“It is shocking that President Obama tried to sneak through this new tax on Christmas trees. He might have thought nobody would realize what he did, but I will fight to prevent President Obama from becoming the Grinch who taxed Christmas,” Scalise said. “This new tax is a smack in the face to each and every American who celebrates Christmas.”

This tax came right after the Great Recession of 2008 and was putting more financial strain on Americans, David Addington of the Heritage Foundation pointed out.

“The economy is barely growing and 9 percent of the American people have no jobs,” Addington added. “Is a new tax on Christmas trees the best President Obama can do?”

Vilsack has not said whether or not he would attempt another Christmas tree tax under the Biden administration.

11 COMMENTS

  1. Obama’s father was never an American citizen. U S Constitution requires the President be born of two American Citizens; Obama was the 1st Fraudulently “elected” President. Kamala’s Parents also were not American Citizens & Trojan horse Biden perverted “free Election” with blatant CHEATING all American Citizens. Martin Luther King, Jr dreamed of Americans being judged on their CHARACTER, not color; yet entrenched Democrats have no CHARACTER.

  2. The absurdity of this money-sucking scheme! Clearly, this illustrates how the populace is squeezed for political enrichments.
    How many times are we sold a bill of goods…bilked… to foster some politico’s money-yielding scheme?

  3. LOL. A tree tax doesn’t bother me. I’m more annoyed that someone allegedly gets paid to perpetuate this nonsense.

  4. I do not know personally, but the actions show an indiference to the Seasons of Light, Hannukhah, Christmas, and importance of family, way before the birth of the US. It is uncanny, that the phasedown is before, during the Holidays, the big picture shows dufferent, so, I support our American spirit in these times of captivity, as our founding fathers, etc. did 1776.

  5. Biden has and will tax,prohibit,ban and raise anything the squad wants.Also what Obama tells him.He has no mind at all.

  6. 15 cents a tree? That means at an average of $50.00 a tree here in Jersey, over the last 12 year ive spent maybe $500-$600 on Chritmas trees. If the tax had stayed that would have gone to $500 and 60 cents to $600 and 60 cents. Not the hill i wanna die on.

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