{"id":1990,"date":"2020-10-08T17:32:53","date_gmt":"2020-10-08T17:32:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/?p=1990"},"modified":"2020-10-08T17:32:53","modified_gmt":"2020-10-08T17:32:53","slug":"city-funds-public-transport-with-a-sales-tax","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/city-funds-public-transport-with-a-sales-tax\/","title":{"rendered":"City Funds Public Transport with a Sales Tax"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The City: Seattle, WA<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The sales tax: 0.1% to 0.15%<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The estimated revenue from the sales tax? $42 million a year<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Voter approval required? Yes<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Which tax sources were rejected?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>0.1% sales tax with $60 car tab fees that would have raised $56 million a year<\/li><li>a 0.2% sales tax was rejected because of the regressive nature of sales taxes<\/li><li>transportation bonds<\/li><li>construction impact fees were rejected as the funds are limited to infrastructure<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thestranger.com\/slog\/2020\/09\/28\/45214651\/washington-is-stuck-funding-transit-with-a-sales-tax\">The Stranger | Washington Is Stuck Funding Transit with a Sales Tax<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The City: Seattle, WA The sales tax: 0.1% to 0.15% The estimated revenue from the sales tax? $42 million a year Voter approval required? Yes Which tax sources were rejected? 0.1% sales tax with $60 car tab fees that would have raised $56 million a year a 0.2% sales tax was rejected because of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1990","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1990","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1990"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1990\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1991,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1990\/revisions\/1991"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1990"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1990"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1990"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}