"The feds are raising the tabacco tax from .39 a pack to 1.01 a pack. A few weeks ago the manufactures already raised the price of a pack .71 to offset their losses so in a month the feds caused the price to go up $1.72 per pack. That's going to hit a lot of poor and middle class people."

Precisely why the so called "Fair Tax" is a big con. That's exactly what would happen to EVERYTHING if we listened to that bit of Orwellian economic theory!