Doug, there is no way to "send it back" it is a one way street. Maryrrf, you are 100% right, it is a cheap political ploy. We had a similar situation here in Maine a few years ago, our republican governor needed a scheme to get re elected, so, he made a big deal out of "refunding surplus tax revenues" to us with his name in large print all over the checks. Then he insisted that we were in the black in spite of a former governor and the secretary of state saying we were in the red. Guess what? the lying bastard won the election, and a week later he announced that "we have a problem" We made a mistake in calculations! Right.. And the gullible are still falling for it.