{"id":1152,"date":"2018-11-13T02:33:00","date_gmt":"2018-11-13T02:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/2018\/11\/13\/1-red-purple-state-voters-defeat-gas-tax-4-legislative-options-to-fix-it\/"},"modified":"2018-11-13T02:33:00","modified_gmt":"2018-11-13T02:33:00","slug":"1-red-purple-state-voters-defeat-gas-tax-4-legislative-options-to-fix-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/1-red-purple-state-voters-defeat-gas-tax-4-legislative-options-to-fix-it\/","title":{"rendered":"+1 Red\/Purple State Voters Defeat Gas Tax. 4 legislative options to fix it."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Missouri voters defeated a gas tax increase 54:46. The gas tax under this proposal would have increased gradually for a total 10 cent increase.<\/p>\n<p>The gas tax increase had bipartisan ledership support in Missouri.<\/p>\n<p>Options on the table for legislators to increase transportation funding in Missouri:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\u00a0increasing various license and registration fees for Department of Transportation<\/li>\n<li>a gas tax increase of 2 cents that would not require voter approval<\/li>\n<li>dedicating \u00a0online sales tax revenue to transportation<\/li>\n<li>implement pay as your drive<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.stltoday.com\/news\/traffic\/along-for-the-ride\/gas-tax-defeat-means-missouri-lawmakers-will-be-seeking-money\/article_9a9949ab-60ce-5eb0-8f69-4b9d0be368fe.html\">St. louis Dispatch |\u00a0Gas tax defeat means Missouri lawmakers will be seeking money for roads<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Missouri voters defeated a gas tax increase 54:46. The gas tax under this proposal would have increased gradually for a total 10 cent increase.<\/p>\n<p>The gas tax increase had bipartisan ledership support in Missouri.<\/p>\n<p>Options on the table for legislators to increase transportation funding in Missouri:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\u00a0increasing various license and registration fees for Department of Transportation<\/li>\n<li>a gas tax increase of 2 cents that would not require voter approval<\/li>\n<li>dedicating \u00a0online sales tax revenue to\u2026<\/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":[51,18,42,8,17,5,46],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1152","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2019-issue","category-activism","category-fuel","category-funding","category-motor-vehicles","category-roads","category-taxes","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1152","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=1152"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1152\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}