I get what you're saying here and agree in theory but saying it shouldn't happen at this point is about as pie in the sky as demanding income equality and to eliminate poverty.JohnStOnge wrote:I'm guessing it was a tax that would be passed on to people who bought Christmas Trees and who didn't inflict it upon themselves except in the sense that they bought the Christmas trees.1) It was a self inflicted tax to pay for it. It's democracy.
2) Government helps every other frisking industry. What's wrong with the tree farmers getting there's?
Perhaps we should re-examine the extent to whcih government helps industry. However, a "tax breaK is not, in my opinion, a subsidy. You are not giving somebody something by "letting" them keep their own money. So that kind of stuff does not, in my opinion, qualify.
But for darned sure government shouldn't be taxing people in in order to pay for some industry's advertising.
Here's a newsflash for ya: it's happening all the time in a ton of different industries and favoring businesses that are primarily owned by so called "conservatives" and "libertarians".
