Category Archives: USDA

A tax on Christmas trees?

By doris | Published: November 9, 2011

Full Story at FirstRead.com Will the government be a Grinch this year and impose a tax on Christmas trees? That’s what the conservative Heritage Foundation claimed Wednesday. A vice president for the think tank asserted that a new “Christmas Tree Promotion Board” established today by the USDA intended to promote the sales of fresh Christmas [...]

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Native American farmers hopeful about suit involving USDA loans

By doris | Published: July 10, 2010

Full Story at CNN.com Porter Holder vividly remembers the day in 1998 when he left a U.S. Department of Agriculture loan office in Oklahoma empty-handed. He had applied for a low-interest USDA loan to help keep a farm in family ownership. He says he expected his application to be accepted. He had kept his debt [...]

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