I can't take it!

I am about to the end of my rope with the Liberals in government fast-tracking all of their violations of personal freedoms and calling it Law.
Today's new law is to turn control of the tobacco industry over to the FDA. How absurd!
I have been smoking cigarettes for more than 30 years. Each time they raise state or federal tobacco taxes, my food budget gets cut. I am not going to quit smoking, but I can buy less healthy, cheaper food. I can skip the lamb and eat chicken thighs; plain wheat bread instead of multi-grain; fewer fresh fruits and veggies...that sort of thing.
Cigs were already expensive when, a while back, the state raised the cigarette tax fifty cents a pack, so I started buying cheaper brands which really did a number on my throat and lungs. Ended up with a nasty cough.
Then the state raised the tax by a buck a pack, so I started buying loose tobacco and rolling my own cigs with a little machine which cost about $15. I smoked more of these than the store-boughts, but it was still less money. My lungs aren't happy, but like I said, I am not going to quit smoking. After months of smoking the do-it-yourself cigs, I can hear my lungs wheezing while I am in my bed trying to sleep. I quietly curse the people who forced me to smoke this stuff which is killing my lungs. The real cigs never did this to me... and I smoked a lot less.
Then beginning in April, the feds decided to raise the tax on my little can of tobacco from about fifty cents to over TEN DOLLARS per can. It already cost ten dollars per can and they added ten dollars in tax to that. So now it costs over twenty dollars for a little can of tobacco.
And, to add insult to injury, they even raised the tax on the PAPER used to make the do-it-yourself smokes.
This is definitely illegal, but no one cares. First they used the news media to make smokers out to be evil polluters, even convincing dumb people that they have an allergy to other people's cig smoke. Right.
They squashed the report by the World Health Organization, which concluded there are NO ill effects from second-hand smoke, because it didn't agree with the made-up stats of "second-hand smoke killing 300,000 people in the US each year.
You may wonder if the tax revenue from cigarettes is really that important to our government. They say they are using the money to help children afford medical care.
First, why are smokers held to pay for children's medical care? Don't they have parents?
Second, the money is NOT earmarked for medical care and just goes into the general fund...the huge pool of all revenue collected.
But the real reason for the punitive taxes on smokers is hidden from public veiw.
It is a fact that congress passed laws years ago to exclude themselves from laws barring insider trading. That's right. THEY passed laws allowing THEM to buy stocks affected by laws they pass. Okay, keep that in mind...
There are two drug companies which produce the patches, gum, inhalers, tablets, etc. which people buy when they want help to quit smoking. The stock in those companies goes up with each new tobacco tax increase.
FACT: the chief lobbyist for these companies is the newly-appointed Secretary of Health and Human Services for the US of A. This evil money-grubber went from working the back halls to being in a position to push for higher tobacco taxes with a lot less effort. I wonder how much stock he and his family own in the companies he used to represent? Could some family member of his still be collecting lobbying money from these drug companies?
But back to the new FDA oversight of the tobacco industry...
Will I need a prescription to buy tobacco in the near future? Will I need a permit to possess cigarettes?
They say the FDA is going to regulate how the cigs are made and which addatives can be used. The government has gone stark raving mad! First they take over the banks andd ruin them. Then they take over the auto industry and ruin it. Now they want to take over the tobacco industry. They want maximum earnings on the drug stocks while they can get it, before Barack causes the whole economy of this country to collapse. (It's coming, unless the courts can stop him from continuing his illegal power-grab.)
Funny, they "decriminalized" possession of marijuana in Massachusetts, but there is an all-out assault on cigarette smokers.
This is just a tiny example of what the idiots running the show in Washington, DC are doing now that there is no opposition. There is not one GOP voice there to help tax payers.
I am done with my rant. I have a lot more to say, but I am started to get depressed.