{"id":2308,"date":"2021-06-25T02:27:07","date_gmt":"2021-06-25T02:27:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/?p=2308"},"modified":"2021-06-25T02:27:07","modified_gmt":"2021-06-25T02:27:07","slug":"gas-tax-alternative-beneficiaries-pay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/gas-tax-alternative-beneficiaries-pay\/","title":{"rendered":"Gas Tax Alternative: Beneficiaries Pay"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">What&#8217;s happening? The former head of the Maryland Secretary of Transportation proposes a beneficiaries pay system that would impose an 8%  federal surcharge on all commercial activity occurring on U.S. streets and highways. Costs would be built into our end consumer prices. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Why is this important? Because pay as your drive tax systems are costly to run and implment<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">How will this be important? The gas tax isn&#8217;t keeping pace, and eventually a replacement will be necessary. This tax is based on commercial activity and would be sensitive to\u00a0inflation and economic trends.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/agenda\/2021\/06\/23\/gas-tax-better-idea-495572\">Politico | Opinion |\u00a0The Gas Tax is Obsolete. Here\u2019s a Better Idea.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What&#8217;s happening? The former head of the Maryland Secretary of Transportation proposes a beneficiaries pay system that would impose an 8% federal surcharge on all commercial activity occurring on U.S. streets and highways. Costs would be built into our end consumer prices. Why is this important? Because pay as your drive tax systems are costly [&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-2308","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\/2308","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=2308"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2308\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2309,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2308\/revisions\/2309"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2308"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2308"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2308"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}