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perhaps a better example than the cigarette tax increase that was just implemented was the rolling tobacco tax increase of around 2100%. Kind of dwarfs that ~100% cigarette tax hike doesn't it? Basically some interests (I'm pretty sure I know who and why) decided they didn't want people rolling their own cigarettes and decided to tax it into oblivion (now taxed at roughly twice the rate of manufactured cigarettes and ten times the rate of loose pipe tobacco.) Obama signed this a week or two into office after being elected on his campaign promise of no new taxes for those making under 250k.

Yes this is how the federal government controls us and this is how they will mollify us before the final push to ban all guns.