One point five billion dollars in fraudulent charges did not appear out of thin air. Someone did it. Someone approved it. Someone benefited. And yelling racism at the person who pointed it out does not make the missing money reappear.

The government is trying to help smokers like me quit. How? With taxes. They care so much, they’ve raised the Federal cigarette tax over 1000% in the last 50 years, while they were jacking up the nicotine to keep me addicted.