How Christmas trees explain why our economy stinks

If you blinked you missed it. This Tuesday, the Department of Agriculture published a notice in the Federal Register announcing their intention to create a Christmas Tree Promotion Board that would conduct a new marketing campaign for fresh cut Christmas trees. The Board and media campaign would all be financed by a 15 cent fee on all trees sold by sellers of more than 500 trees per year.

But on Tuesday evening, The Heritage Foundation posted an story calling the new fee a “Chris tams Tree Tax” and Drudge linked to the post sometime Tuesday night. By Wednesday afternoon the Obama administration had caved, announcing they would delay implementation of the program.