{"id":107,"date":"2015-02-02T00:21:00","date_gmt":"2015-02-02T00:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/2015\/02\/02\/tea-party-revolt-to-transportation-funding\/"},"modified":"2015-02-02T00:21:00","modified_gmt":"2015-02-02T00:21:00","slug":"tea-party-revolt-to-transportation-funding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/tea-party-revolt-to-transportation-funding\/","title":{"rendered":"Tea Party Revolt to Transportation Funding"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Georgia House has proposed to generate $1Billion in transportation funding by leaving the gas tax and imposing a\u00a0\u00a0state excise tax of 29.2 cents per gallon of gas. Local governments would lose $500M in the tax swap.<\/p>\n<p>The proposal allows the local governments to impose new taxes.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Tea Party supporters oppose the scheme because it is:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>a &#8220;scheme&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>would raise taxes on gas by more than 7 cents<\/li>\n<li>grants\u00a0tax breaks for large corporations.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.myajc.com\/news\/news\/state-regional-govt-politics\/is-georgia-transportation-plan-a-tax-increase-mayb\/njzXN\/?ecmp=ajc_social_twitter_2014_politics_sfp#d5dd8a80.3721333.735627%23__federated=1\">Atlanta Journal Constitution<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Georgia House has proposed to generate $1Billion in transportation funding by leaving the gas tax and imposing a\u00a0\u00a0state excise tax of 29.2 cents per gallon of gas. Local governments would lose $500M in the tax swap.<\/p>\n<p>The proposal allows the local governments to impose new taxes.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Tea Party supporters oppose the scheme because it is:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>a &#8220;scheme&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>would raise taxes on gas by more than 7 cents<\/li>\n<li>grants\u00a0tax breaks for large corporations.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,10,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-107","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-funding","category-legislative-trend","category-roads","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107","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=107"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}