Christmas tree tax

[deerman]

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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.

Well you can't buy it............ if it illegal to sell it.


What next you can't sell , fresh eggs........

 

[MamaRoo]

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

Well you can't buy it............ if it illegal to sell it.


What next you can't sell , fresh eggs........

I've bought raw milk for making yogurt.

http://agr.wa.gov/FoodAnimal/Dairy/docs/rawmilktruth.pdf

http://warawmilk.com/

 

[deerman]

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Well you can't buy it............ if it illegal to sell it.


What next you can't sell , fresh eggs........

I've bought raw milk for making yogurt.

http://agr.wa.gov/FoodAnimal/Dairy/docs/rawmilktruth.pdf

http://warawmilk.com/

True BYC Addict

: Christmas tree taxI 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.

MamaRoo wrote:
Why on earth would I want to sell raw milk?

Last edited by chickened (Yesterday 10:37 pm)


would think you would want other to be able to sell it..............so you could buy it ??????

 

[cravenchx]

I can just see the tax police coming in
on Christmas eve and confiscating my tree
because I didn't pay my taxes!

 

[dainerra]

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they don't want to PAY for the ads, which could easily come out to much more than 15cents a tree. They wanted the government to subsidize their industry, with them contributing a token portion to the campaign.

ETA: as someone else pointed out, Got Milk IS ran by the government.

How, though, is it a tax if it is the industries idea to pay it. It would be like I approached my neighbor and said "I will pay you 50cents for every dozen eggs if you tell all your friends to buy from me." Is my neighbor charging me anything?? Is it a tax? Or even a fee for that matter?

The ad campaign could easily cost way more than 15cents a tree. There is hiring of a media planner. An ad agency. Multiple media forms (newspaper, magazines, computer, TV, etc) How many slots on each? I assume that they would start running around Halloween or the beginning of Nov? Prime ad time, so the fees are going to be higher.

My sister is a media planner, so I have an idea of how much this costs. Hiring the agency can easily be a couple hundred thousand and that doesn't include any actual commercials, let alone the cost of airtime or print.

The dairy ads work the same way. The lobby approached the government with an offer and the government agreed to do all the work. I wonder if the hidden costs that added up influenced the decision to not do a "got tree" campaign?

Why not just hire their own agency? Oh, because the lobby knows that it would be MUCH more expensive. Another big industry was trying to pull one over on the American people and the government, who STOPPED the waste is still the bad guy.