Virginia's Nutty Gas Tax Proposal

February 21, 2006

A proposal attached to one of the transportation funding bills being considered is a higher tax on the wholesale price of fuel (gasoline). Now get this: the proposal will allow consumers (who will ultimately pay for the increase) to save their receipts and twice a year redeem these at a DMV office for a refund of the taxes. Estimates are that only half of us will go to the trouble of doing this. Is this the nuttiest proposal you have ever heard?

How in the &%$#* will anyone be able to administer this? Let alone the DMV that has a hard time serving their current customers. How do you prevent me from printing look alike receipts? What kind of procedures will be mandated that the distributors and retailers implement to administer this? Who pays for the administration (a stupid question)?

Whoever came up with this idea needs immediate psychological attention. And, it might include the entire senate finance committee who recently approved it.

Weird politics to the extreme! Give me a stupid tax break.

PS: I opened a new category called Outrage

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