{"id":101,"date":"2015-01-26T21:32:00","date_gmt":"2015-01-26T21:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/2015\/01\/26\/transportation-funding-reforms-empower-texas-style\/"},"modified":"2015-01-26T21:32:00","modified_gmt":"2015-01-26T21:32:00","slug":"transportation-funding-reforms-empower-texas-style","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/transportation-funding-reforms-empower-texas-style\/","title":{"rendered":"Transportation Funding Reforms Empower Texas Style"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>How would Empower Texas improve transportation funding? By doing this:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>reduce motor fuels sales tax diversions, which will trigger:\n<ul>\n<li>eliminating non-essential programs and agencies<\/li>\n<li>dedicating future revenue streams to transportation<\/li>\n<li>reforming the budgeting process to prioritize core conservative principles<\/li>\n<li>enacting stricter spending growth limits<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>extend 2014&#8217;s Prop 1 spending restrictions to ALL STATE FUNDS for use only on:\n<ul>\n<li>road maintenance<\/li>\n<li>non-tolled expansion<\/li>\n<li>retiring debt<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>limit funding only to projects that reduce congestion\n<ul>\n<li>Bye-bye rail projectb<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>reform CDAs to limit toll road abuse\n<ul>\n<li>Note: tollroads may be ok if they are built with private funds\/debt<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em><strong>What would Empower Texas have the Legislature avoid?<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>higher taxes<\/li>\n<li>rainy-day raids<\/li>\n<li>expansion of \u201cregionally managed\u201d toll lanes<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.empowertexans.com\/features\/transportation-reform-fiscal-responsibility-first\/\">Empower Texas<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How would Empower Texas improve transportation funding? By doing this:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>reduce motor fuels sales tax diversions, which will trigger:\n<ul>\n<li>eliminating non-essential programs and agencies<\/li>\n<li>dedicating future revenue streams to transportation<\/li>\n<li>reforming the budgeting process to prioritize core conservative principles<\/li>\n<li>enacting stricter spending growth limits<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>extend 2014&#8217;s Prop 1 spending restrictions to ALL STATE FUNDS for use&#8230;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,8,5,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-101","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-activism","category-funding","category-roads","category-tollroad","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=101"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}