{"id":233,"date":"2015-07-08T20:49:00","date_gmt":"2015-07-08T20:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/2015\/07\/08\/6-republican-governors-broke-no-new-tax-pledge-for-transportation\/"},"modified":"2015-07-08T20:49:00","modified_gmt":"2015-07-08T20:49:00","slug":"6-republican-governors-broke-no-new-tax-pledge-for-transportation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/6-republican-governors-broke-no-new-tax-pledge-for-transportation\/","title":{"rendered":"6 Republican Governors Broke No New tax Pledge for Transportation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With federal transportation funding overhauled stalled, many states this year raised taxes for transportation including:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Georgia (Republican Gov.)<\/li>\n<li>Idaho\u00a0(Republican Gov.)<\/li>\n<li>Iowa\u00a0(Republican Gov.)<\/li>\n<li>Kentucky\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0Nebraska<\/li>\n<li>North Carolina\u00a0(Republican Gov.)<\/li>\n<li>South Dakota\u00a0(Republican Gov.)<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0Utah\u00a0(Republican Gov.)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>What coalitions supported these tax increases? The peope trying to get to work.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>business community<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0the transportation industry<\/li>\n<li>ordinary taxpayers<\/li>\n<li>+ <a href=\"http:\/\/archive.11alive.com\/assetpool\/documents\/140424022618_ARTBA_Bridges_State%20Bridge2014.pdf\">a report<\/a> on unsafe bridges by the\u00a0American Road &amp; Transportation Builders Association<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.governing.com\/topics\/transportation-infrastructure\/many-governors-broke-tax-pledges-to-pay-for-transportation.html\">Governing<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With federal transportation funding overhauled stalled, many states this year raised taxes for transportation including:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Georgia (Republican Gov.)<\/li>\n<li>Idaho\u00a0(Republican Gov.)<\/li>\n<li>Iowa\u00a0(Republican Gov.)<\/li>\n<li>Kentucky\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0Nebraska<\/li>\n<li>North Carolina\u00a0(Republican Gov.)<\/li>\n<li>South Dakota\u00a0(Republican Gov.)<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0Utah\u00a0(Republican Gov.)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>What coalitions supported these tax increases? The peope trying to get to work.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>business community<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0the transportation industry<\/li>\n<li>ordinary taxpayers<\/li>\n<li>+ <a href=\"http:\/\/archive.11alive.com\/assetpool\/documents\/140424022618_ARTBA_Bridges_State%20Bridge2014.pdf\">a report<\/a> on unsafe&#8230;<\/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":[8,10,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-233","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-funding","category-legislative-trend","category-roads","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233","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=233"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}