Obama's new federal tobacco taxes

I was just at the store where the worker told me cigarettes are going up to $14.00 a pack next week. So I googled it and found this:

President Barak Obama signed the Insurance Program Reauthorization Act of 2009, providing a major expansion of the State Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP) to provide health insurance to moderate-income families and illegal aliens.

This government handout is funded with an increased federal tobacco tax.

• Increase U.S. Federal Tax on a pack of cigarettes from $0.39 to $1.01 per pack
• Increase Federal tax on pipe tobacco from $1.0969 per pound to $2.83 per pound
• Increase Federal tax on RYO tobacco from $1.0969 per pound to $24.78 per pound
• Increase Federal tax on cigarette papers (50 or less) from $0.0122 to $0.0315
• Federal tax on cigarette tubes (50 or less) = $0.0244 - New rate is $0.0630

http://www.smokersnews.com/cigarette-taxes/294/obama-signs-federal-cigarette-tax-hike/

My Tops tobacco will go up almost $25. an lb. It doesn't matter that I don't go anywhere or blow my toxic smoke on anyone else. I live alone in a tent. I don't go to the bar (or the church either). I went as far away from civilization as I could to get away from the communitarians and their pointy fingers. There's just no escape if I stay in the U.S. No matter what I accomplish here or how I live I'm just a bad little communitarian girl for still smoking. I'm sure glad my government knows what's best for me and will punish me until I do the right thing. What a relief to know my poverty level doesn't mean I shouldn't be forced to pay health insurance benefits for people who make more than me or who aren't even citizens. What's more important than my selfish ignorant assumption that I'm an adult making adult choices? Why the "common good," of course!

Lots of people suggest we just make tobacco illegal. What good little communitarians they are.