Now they are taxing Eggs, Watermelon, Mangos.....

The Obama Admin Just Won't Stop...


It wasn't just the Christmas Tree tax they tried to impose.  Look what else is coming down the pipe:

http://blog.heritage.org/2011/11/10/agricultural-marketing-fees-not-just-for-christmas-trees/

Agricultural Marketing Fees: Not Just for Christmas Trees

James Gattuso

November 10, 2011 at 3:37 pm 

Yesterday, after word got out (via a post here on the Foundry) regarding new “mandatory fees” on Christmas trees imposed by the Obama Department of Agriculture (USDA), the White House moved quickly to suspend implementation of the new tax.

The fees, which were supported by an industry group called the Christmas Tree Check-off Task Force, were earmarked for industry marketing efforts. USDA’s role was to make sure that all growers helped pay for those efforts, whether they supported them or not. Those growers, at least for now, have been given a reprieve. But the ill-starred Christmas tree tax was far from the only such mandatory marketing levy on agricultural products from popcorn and blueberries to mangos.

(article not completely copied due to copyright laws). Among the commodities subject to these fees:

• Beef: $1 per head of cattle, totaling $80 million annually;
• Blueberries: $12 per ton;
• Cotton: $1 per bale of cotton handled;
• Dairy products: 15-cent-per-hundredweight assessment on all milk produced in the contiguous 48 states;
• Eggs: 10 cents per 30-dozen cases of eggs sold, bringing in $18 million annually;
• Fluid milk: 20-cent-per-hundredweight assessment;
• Hass avocados: 2.5 cents per pound, bringing in almost $30 million;
• Honey packers and importers: 1 cent per pound, totaling $5 million;
• Lamb: $0.005 per pound of live lambs sold, with $2 million raised each year;
• Mangos: $0.005 per pound, raising $4.3 million;
• Mushrooms: 0.005 cents per pound, totaling over $4 million in revenue;
• Peanuts: 1 percent of the total value of all farmers stock peanuts, raising $8 million;
• Popcorn: 6 cents per hundredweight, raising some $1 million;
• Pork: 0.25 percent of market value, raising $3.8 million;
• Potatoes: 3 cents per hundredweight, totaling about $12 million;
• Soybeans: 0.5 percent of the net market price of the soybeans purchased, averaging $55–60 million per year;
• Watermelons: 3 cents per hundredweight on domestic watermelons, and importers pay 6 cents per cwt, bringing in some $2.8 million.