The Sunday morning paper brings this howler from the Virginian-Pilot (my emphasis added):
Under a Senate plan concocted to appease anti-taxers, the state would impose a 5 percent sales tax on the average wholesale price of gasoline. … Industrious consumers could reclaim their money, however, by saving gas receipts and applying twice a year for a 5 percent refund.
Troublesome and time-consuming as this sounds, the real culprits aren’t those who devised the rebate plan, but those who would entertain an increase in the gas tax no other way.
I’d say the real culprits are those who would entertain no solution to Virginia’s traffic congestion woes but tax, tax, build, build and will use any jury-rigged scheme they can to slip taxes past a wary public.
