Ehh
Side show distraction.
How much does it affect the corner lot?
How much do they sell? >500 trees?
Tree costs between 20-100, let's average to 40.
40 * 500 = 20,000 for the threshold of paying and tracking.
$20K - assume $10K profit BEFORE accounting for time spent or hiring someone to man the lot for 1 month. Or cost of the lot.
Assume cost of lot for $2K for the month (I just made that up, is it reasonable?).
Lot / sales guy paid $10 per hour * 60 hours per week * 4 weeks = $2,400.
So assume around $5,500 income for the month's sales if hiring someone to help, else it is worth around $8K for the month if doing it yourself.
How many people cross the threshold, feel the bite, and is it enough to matter to them individually, as opposed to the trivial amount the big guys feel.
And they will probably slap a ticket on the tree explaining the $5 price increase is due to the amount of overhead they have in dealing with the law, and make $4.85 more profit per tree. Like gas price increases get buried in the taxes.
Nah, doesn't bother me. Entertains yes, bothers, no. Too small to matter in either revenue or individual pain experienced. But is a sideshow distraction.
