Christmas tree tax

[MamaRoo]

Dunno. Maybe they are regulated differently.

Or maybe they did: http://www.ams.usda.gov/AMSv1.0/getfile?dDocName=STELDEV3099970

The Dairy Production Stabilization Act of 1983 (Dairy Act) (7 U.S.C. 4501 et seq.) authorized a national
producer program for dairy product promotion, research, and nutrition education as part of a comprehensive
strategy to increase human consumption of milk and dairy products. Dairy farmers fund this self-help
program through a mandatory 15-cent per hundredweight assessment on all milk produced in the
contiguous 48 States and marketed commercially. Dairy farmers administer the national program through
the National Dairy Promotion and Research Board (Dairy Board). The Dairy Act provides that dairy
farmers can direct up to 10 cents per hundredweight of the assessment for contributions to qualified State or
regional dairy product promotion, research, or nutrition education programs (Qualified Programs).

http://www.ers.usda.gov/publications/aib750/aib750j.pdf

Two national programs for dairy advertising, authorized by
Congress, have concentrated on advertising for fluid milk and
cheese. This chapter analyzes the effectiveness of these programs,
and shows that generic advertising has had a positive impact on both
cheese and fluid milk sales.

Should we all gripe about the milk tax?​

 

[chickened]

Oh yes, Snopes the omnipotent internet Goddess

I think I will ask the USDA to collect a fee so I can market my chickens more effectively maybe 15 or 20 cents I mean who really cares it is just a few pennies and I am sure all the BYCers do not mind, we can call it a chicken... tax! no wait a chicken enhancement fee and hopefully nobody will realize it is a tax. Unless of course Snopes.com say different.

 

[chickened]

Try selling raw milk. It is not always about the money it sometimes is the baggage that comes with the program like penalties.
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Should we all gripe about the milk tax?

 

[MamaRoo]

Why on earth would I want to sell raw milk?

 

[Matthew3590]

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You like the natural stuff not the processed stuff. Cause processed is bad remember!

 

[MamaRoo]

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You like the natural stuff not the processed stuff. Cause processed is bad remember!

Actually I don't drink milk in any form, but if I did, I would BUY raw milk, not sell it.

 

[chickened]

I assumed by your previous post you approved of government ran programs like the Christmas tree program suggested and was comparing it to the similar Dairy Act which as I understand it is the source of the rules used against small dairymen that penalizes and jails those that want to sell raw milk. This is a good example of what government programs morph into.
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[sourland]

We all know what 'assume' does.

 

[MamaRoo]

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I think that everything should be assessed based on it's on merits, or lack there of. Approving of any group of things wholesale with investigating each one is foolish.

Someone asked why the dairy industry didn't seek government approval for an ad campaign and it turns out that it did need to. I presume it's all tied up in the "agricultural" domain.

 

[Zinnia-Hen]

I gotta say, there's something wrong with you if you really wanna tax Chirstmas trees. Whitehouse folk.