You are now paying a medical excise tax of 2.3% on the following items:
From IRS.gov:
The following discussion of manufacturers taxes applies to the tax on:
- Sport fishing equipment;
- Fishing rods and fishing poles;
- Electric outboard motors;
- Fishing tackle boxes;
- Bows, quivers, broadheads, and points;
- Arrow shafts;
- Coal;
- Taxable tires;
- Gas guzzler automobiles; and
- Vaccines.
Manufacturer: The term “manufacturer” includes a producer or importer. A manufacturer is any person who produces a taxable article from new or raw material, or from scrap, salvage, or junk material, by processing or changing the form of an article or by combining or assembling two or more articles. If you furnish the materials and keep title to those materials and to the finished article, you are considered the manufacturer even though another person actually manufactures the taxable article. A manufacturer who sells a taxable article in knockdown (unassembled) condition is liable for the tax. The person who buys these component parts and assembles a taxable article may also be liable for tax as a further manufacturer depending on the labor, material, and overhead required to assemble the completed article if the article is assembled for business use.
Looks like a redneck tax.