{"id":1135,"date":"2018-10-18T20:28:00","date_gmt":"2018-10-18T20:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/2018\/10\/18\/lege-trend-disguising-a-gas-tax-bill-for-transportation-in-a-school-finance-deal-heres-how\/"},"modified":"2018-10-18T20:28:00","modified_gmt":"2018-10-18T20:28:00","slug":"lege-trend-disguising-a-gas-tax-bill-for-transportation-in-a-school-finance-deal-heres-how","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/lege-trend-disguising-a-gas-tax-bill-for-transportation-in-a-school-finance-deal-heres-how\/","title":{"rendered":"Lege TREND. Disguising a Gas Tax Bill for Transportation in a School Finance Deal. Here&#39;s How:"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Where:\u00a0<\/strong>\u00a0Utah<\/p>\n<p><strong>The legislative compromise:<\/strong>\u00a0The Utah Legislature and Supports of Increasing School Funding made a deal that would:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>put a 10cent gas tax question to the voters and then require legislative implementation after the vote<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0the Legislature in exchange:\n<ul>\n<li>froze the state basic property tax rate for 5\u00a0years<\/li>\n<li>created a new tax rate for the weighted pupil unit thereby creating a\u00a0$292 million increase in education funding.<\/li>\n<li>if the gas tax is approved, funds would be divded like this:\n<ul>\n<li>70% to schools<\/li>\n<li>30% to transportation projects<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.parkrecord.com\/news\/ballot-question-will-ask-utah-voters-if-they-support-gas-tax-increase-for-public-education-funding\/\">Park City Record |\u00a0Ballot question will ask Utah voters if they support gas tax increase for public education funding<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Where:\u00a0<\/strong>\u00a0Utah<\/p>\n<p><strong>The legislative compromise:<\/strong>\u00a0The Utah Legislature and Supports of Increasing School Funding made a deal that would:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>put a 10cent gas tax question to the voters and then require legislative implementation after the vote<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0the Legislature in exchange:\n<ul>\n<li>froze the state basic property tax rate for 5\u00a0years<\/li>\n<li>created a new tax rate for the weighted pupil unit thereby creating a\u00a0$292 million increase in education funding.<\/li>\n<li>if the gas tax is approved, funds would be divded like this:\n<ul>\n<li>70\u2026<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/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":[51,18,13,8,10,17,5,46],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1135","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2019-issue","category-activism","category-campaign-trend","category-funding","category-legislative-trend","category-motor-vehicles","category-roads","category-taxes","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1135","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=1135"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1135\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}