Here they come again. This time to fund the Americans W/ Disabilites Act.
They will NEVER stop. Check out the proposed tax on PIPE TOBACCO - $49.55 a pound! OUCH!

Senator Tom Harkin (Democrat-Iowa) has introduced S. 1403 in the U.S. Senate, a bill to reauthorize and fund the Individuals with Disabilities Act.

A portion of the funding for the extension of the Individuals with Disabilities Act would come from increasing the federal excise tax on cigarettes, cigars, pipe tobacco, roll-your-own tobacco, snuff and chewing tobacco. The proposed tax increases are as follows:

Cigarettes
Current Tax Rate
$1.01 Per Pack
Proposed Tax Rate
$2.01 Per Pack

Little Cigars
Current Tax Rate
$1.01 Per Pack
Proposed Tax Rate
$2.01 Per Pack (weighing 4 ½ pounds per thousand)

Pipe Tobacco
Current Tax Rate
$2.8311 Per Pound
Proposed Tax Rate
$49.55 Per Pound

Roll-Your-Own Tobacco
Current Tax Rate
$24.78 Per Pound
Proposed Tax Rate
$49.55 Per Pound

Single Use Smokeless Units (Snus)
$.10 Per Single Use Unit

The bill would tax all other tobacco products at a level equivalent to the tax rate for cigarettes on an estimated per use basis as determined by the FDA. Also, each of these cigarette and tobacco tax rates would have an annual inflation adjustment. Currently, there is no similar bill in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Source:http://www.natocentral.org/

Build your cellar now.
Build it fast and build it deep.

I have been, and will continue to do so until enactment of such as S1403 make it so I can no longer afford to.

I do miss the country of my birth.

Any member of congress who makes outlandish proposals is not doing his or her job. They should not be voted out of office, but arrested on the spot for stealing their pay. The proposed tax increase is beyond outlandish, it is insane. Congress is not only out to lunch but out of whak! It seems that we lose by just getting up every morning.

What goes around comes around. That congressman needs to have a pipe stuffed up his ass. Maybe it will help him pass his shit legislation into a pot where it belongs!

Twelve inch clay sewer pipe filled with concrete, liberally coated with its former contents, lubricated with five minute epoxy, followed by a loading dose of castor oil combined with Cascara sagrada and Exlax orally Q2 until satisfactory results occur...

Whoever thought pipe smokers were laid back gentlemanly creatures, self centered upon their favorite blends and thinkers of lofty thoughts just blow'in smoke, never met the "old men" pipe smokers. Hell can render no wrath greater than a group of old pipe smokers who are wise enough to know when they are being shafted. We have defended this country in time of war and we have built this country in times of peace. We have worked hard, raised our families and paid our dues in life. Our duly elected representatives were sent to state capitals and to Washington to properly represent us. If all they can do on a workday in the office is shit on us, they had better get used to the aromas of their creation. We'll be sending our letters to congress properly addressed to the "ASS ON THE CRAPPER"!

Guess this newb needs to learn how to build a tobacco cellar

good god almighty - will it never end?

That would add $5-$6 to the cost of a tin. OUCH!

IMHO hoarding pipe tobacco is the stick your head in the sand response. There is no need to plan for doomsday. The plan should be to tell a fool who is masquerading as a legislator to "Stick your bill where the sun does not shine!" "Don't dump on us and think you will escape our financial pain!"

It's clear you greed filled wealthy people hate disabled Americans.

Harkin is one of several darlings of the left. Tax, tax, and more tax is their repeated answer to any problem, crisis, or...well, hell, it is just their way of life.

Hopefully, this will fail under the the growing demand for "no tax increases."

Thanks for posting the notice. I had not heard it.

Truth is relative. Blah blah What's right for me may not be right for you.
Etc etc.
There are no absolutes. Yada yada
You can't be morally handicapped. Morals are just imaginary rules of the religious to spoil the fun man. But I digress.the social contract that you were born into demands that you help the disabled. Now quit trying to lawyer your way put of it and smoke up, America needs you.