re: #11 RogueOne

The price of the Christmas trees will be set by what the market will bear.

The price of a product is not determined by taking the cost of producing the product and then slapping X on it.

This has no relationship to the cost of food, where there are huge subsidies, price floors and ceilings, and other economic tactics at work.

This is an industry-wide tax to produce an industry-wide benefit. It shouldn’t be in the least bit controversial, except that it is favoring one industry— natural Christmas trees— over another— artificial Christmas trees— for no real reason that I can think of.

So take them to task for someone real, not for bullshit.

That is the reason to oppose this, not because of some misunderstanding of how prices are set.

And if you read Cnredd’s full post over there, he’s a rather severe ODS sufferer:

So they want the GOVERNMENT to FORCE the rest of the real tree growers to hand over their cash….and with the wealth redistribution ideology of this administration, they jumped on board in no time…

And an ellipsis abuser to boot.