Comment by Reynolds, Kevin B.

OK. I know I'm not going to get honesty here, (if I get anything at all, other than an investigation) but I'll ask the question anyway: What's the real reason for this increase? According to your "Industry Circular" (http://www.ttb.gov/industry_circulars/archives/2009/ic2009_01.html) for "Roll-Your- Own Tobacco2" (which is what I smoke) the tax has gone from $1.0969 per pound to $24.78 per pound. As you state that is a $23.6831 per pound increase. I ask again: What is the real reason for a 2,259.09 percent increase in these taxes? I see that the increase for pipe tobacco went from the same $1.0969 per pound as my Roll-Your-Own, to $2.8311 per pound, a mere 258.1 percent increase. I guess you consider pipe smokers to be of a higher class than us Roll-Your-Own smokers. Something is not right in what's going on here. I do not believe this has anything to do with the Children's Health Insurance Program Reauthorization Act of 2009 (the "Act," Pub. L. 111-3). That is merely the vehicle you decided to use for your other actual reasons. I do not believe this has anything to do with children's health. I believe something else is going on and I am sure it has much more to do with you stealing my money. It is plain and simple theft. This is just another large pile of manure I am seeing more and more from "my" government. However, in this particular case, it is a 2,259.09 percent increase in the amount of manure I am use to and thus is the reason for this "comment" on this latest attack on the ever more tax paying citizens of this country.