I was just alerted to this and it pisses me off!

H. R. 4439

To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to impose the same rate of tax on pipe tobacco as is imposed on roll-your-own tobacco.

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

JANUARY 13, 2010

Mr. COHEN (for himself and Mr. DOGGETT) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Ways and Means

A BILL

To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to impose the same rate of tax on pipe tobacco as is imposed on roll-your-own tobacco.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

This Act may be cited as the “Tobacco Tax Parity Act of 2010”.

SEC. 2. PIPE TOBACCO AND ROLL-YOUR-OWN TOBACCO RATE PARITY.

(a) In General.—Subsection (f) of section 5701 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 is amended by striking “$2.8311 cents” and inserting “$24.78”.

(b) Effective Date.—The amendments made by this section shall apply to articles removed (as defined in section 5702(j) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986) after the date of the enactment of this Act.


Call your local reps NOW!
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daayyyyummm

seriously uncool
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Boo :-)
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Let me guess: they figured out that a lot of RYO folks started using pipe tobacco to avoid the last round of unfair taxes... :-)
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Kind of. The RYO folks started to ribbon cut the baccy and market it as "pipe tobacco".
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You didn't think that they were going to stop at taxing cigarettes, did ya?
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:-)
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Stop? Hell, here in NY they're proposing another buck a pack in taxes...
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They never stop until there are no more of them.
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its for the children:-)
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It was only a matter of time. They have to pay for free health care some how :-)
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They SUCK!
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Makes me glad I quit. Although, it's a case of stand together or hang separately. I'm sure next up will be a bill to "establish parity" between cigar tobacco and RYO and pipe tobacco. :-)
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Our "Freedoms" Are Diminishing Quickly, My Friends!:-)
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We at PipesMagazine.com have been covering this story since it broke on Friday.

Bill Introduced to Further Raise Federal Taxes on Pipe Tobacco

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Yeh, companies try to get around the taxes so everyone now gets screwed. Not saying I agree with the taxes, especially that large of an increase :-). I also understand the view point of the companies, they are just trying to make money. No one wins in these situations except the people who want to ban tobacco.

When they made clove cigars illegal, what did they do? They made them twice the size, changed the paper and now they call them "small cigars". They are not small cigars, they are just larger cigarettes, give me a break.

Here in California, we get commercials for a tobacco free CA, I just wonder what our streets and schools would look like without the tobacco tax.
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this seriously pisses me off as a citizen and a pipe smoker I smoke actual pipe tobacco not that fake crap they just call pipe tobacco to get around the tax
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Recently I've been reading the posts by SilverFox and rhmalone, and watching the beginnings of their slide down another slope. It's been fascinating and informative and has gotten me interested in pipes. However, this thread has given me pause. I'm not sure I want to get into another hobby that our government seems bent on taxing out of existence. :-)
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Emails sent to congressmen, this is bullshit
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Until non tobacco users realize that their hobby will be the next target for the looters to get money it will continue. All citizens need to band together to stop this *&$%. When will enough people wake up? :-)
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