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Well, the official reason the USG changes the way they count inflation is because people's spending habits change over the years. The weights are several pages down in this file
https://www.bls.gov/news.release/pdf/cpi.pdf
in Tables 1 and 2.

That said, I still believe this
http://www.shadowstats.com/alternate_data/inflation-charts
more than the official numbers.