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Senate Bill 708 contains a
provision to rebate the proposed 5 percent wholesale gas tax. The refund mechanism is being ridiculed by members of the House of Delegates, and others, as being unduly cumbersome. Delegate Vince Callahan calls it “one of the most bizarre proposals I’ve seen down here in years.” Delegate Wardrup said, “If you tried very hard to design something more cumbersome, you’d be hard-pressed to do it.” Indeed, the mechanism is cumbersome, and probably unworkable. Who is really going to save their gas receipts and submit them twice a year to Richmond for refund of the gas tax?^
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