Cigar Tax

Apparently, there is currently a $.048 per cigar tax cap. If a new bill winding its way through the Senate is passed, that cap would rise to $10 - an increase of 20,000%:

"'I'm not sure in the history of man, since our forefathers founded the country in 1776, that there's ever been a tax increase of 20,000 percent,' said Newman, who runs the Tampa business founded by grandfather Julius Caesar Newman. 'They had the Boston Tea Party for less than this.'

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"'Why don't we just go out of business?' Newman said. 'Here, you can run our company, Mr. Government.'

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"The [Cigar Association of America] has lobbied to exclude cigars from the bill, but bristles at the public relations challenge: How do you oppose a sin tax Congress has rigged to help sick kids?"

HT: Drudge Report