Idiotarian mocked salt police

YEAH, there's no WAY the govt is coming for our SALT, now, is there?

You may be wondering where the “Obama is coming for your salt!” idea comes from.    (Other than pure derangement, I mean.)   Apparently, it’s a product of one of the oldest gambits in the hack’s playbook: “forgetting” that in the American system of government any individual legislator can introduce legislation, and then citing isolated proposals with no support as representative of something.  

But then there's THIS, breathlessly but excitedly reported by the Washington Post:

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