{"id":2152,"date":"2021-02-25T20:30:27","date_gmt":"2021-02-25T20:30:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/?p=2152"},"modified":"2021-02-25T20:38:29","modified_gmt":"2021-02-25T20:38:29","slug":"anatomy-of-transportation-tax-proposal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/anatomy-of-transportation-tax-proposal\/","title":{"rendered":"Anatomy of Transportation Tax Proposal"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">What&#8217;s happening? Washington State is trying to figure out how to fund its transportation system by raising the gas tax \u00a03 cents a gallon; imposing a 2 cent sales taxes on bicycles and bike parts; 20-cents-per-trip surcharge and ferry passengers would pay an extra 25 cents per crossing for transit riders; &amp; Uber and Lyft would pay an additional 50 cents per ride<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Why is this important? Supporters also want to levy a carbon fee as well as a tax on luxury aircraft and yachts; $15 per ton fee on carbon emissions<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">How will this be important? The tax discussion shows issues like climate change and the sharing economy factor into transportation taxes in the new economy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.governing.com\/finance\/Washington-Proposal-Would-Impose-Wide-Transportation-Tax.html?utm_term=Washington%20Proposal%20Would%20Impose%20Wide%20Transportation%20Tax&amp;utm_campaign=The%20Strange%2C%20Troubled%20History%20of%20Pedestrian%20Malls&amp;utm_content=email&amp;utm_source=Act-On+Software&amp;utm_medium=email\"><em>\u00a0The Seattle Times<\/em> | Washington Proposal Would Impose Wide Transportation Tax<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What&#8217;s happening? Washington State is trying to figure out how to fund its transportation system by raising the gas tax \u00a03 cents a gallon; imposing a 2 cent sales taxes on bicycles and bike parts; 20-cents-per-trip surcharge and ferry passengers would pay an extra 25 cents per crossing for transit riders; &amp; Uber and Lyft [&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-2152","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\/2152","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=2152"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2152\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2154,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2152\/revisions\/2154"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}