Throughout his campaign LMO promised he wouldn’t raise taxes on anyone making less than $250k\/year.\u00c2\u00a0 The *first* thing he did in office was raise the tax on roll your own tobacco by an astounding 2,159%.\u00c2\u00a0 It’s a pretty safe bet RYO smokers are making a *bit* less than a quarter million bucks a year. (BTW, it was to pay for medical coverage for kids whose parents made up to $63k\/year.\u00c2\u00a0 So the minimum wage guy trying to save a few bucks on his smokes gets to finance the larvae of $63k “poor” citizens.)<\/p>\n
RYO tobacco producers responded by re-labeling their RYO tobacco as pipe tobacco, which received a mere 158% tax increase.\u00c2\u00a0 Same stuff, same bags, same tobacco, but a different name.<\/p>\n
Congress’ is pissed that anyone dare get around their draconian increase.\u00c2\u00a0 Their solution is a 775% tax increase on pipe tobacco, making sure that pipe smokers get screwed so RYO smokers won’t be able to evade *their* screwing.<\/p>\n
Is it time to shoot the bastards yet?\u00c2\u00a0 Seriously, how much longer should we wait?<\/p>\n