{"id":266,"date":"2015-08-13T21:38:00","date_gmt":"2015-08-13T21:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/2015\/08\/13\/americans-for-prosperity-enter-palmetto-state-gas-tax-debate\/"},"modified":"2015-08-13T21:38:00","modified_gmt":"2015-08-13T21:38:00","slug":"americans-for-prosperity-enter-palmetto-state-gas-tax-debate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/americans-for-prosperity-enter-palmetto-state-gas-tax-debate\/","title":{"rendered":"Americans for Prosperity Enter Palmetto State Gas Tax Debate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The gas tax is taking center stage for campaign season in South Carolina. &#8220;Anti-tax activists are working the phones to secure GOP senators\u2019 opposition in 2016, when every legislator is up for re-election.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The message: Reform the system. Don&#8217;t add more money. No new taxes. Governance reforms include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>abolishing both the legislatively appointed DOT commission and the State Infrastructure Bank (which funds transportation rojects)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The Chamber of Commerce retorts that reform is needed along with funding. That only a two proing approach will solve the transportation funding crisis.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.abcnews4.com\/story\/29741758\/sc-anti-tax-groups-step-up-opposition-to-road-funding-bill\">AP via ABC News 4 South Carolina<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The gas tax is taking center stage for campaign season in South Carolina. &#8220;Anti-tax activists are working the phones to secure GOP senators\u2019 opposition in 2016, when every legislator is up for re-election.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The message: Reform the system. Don&#8217;t add more money. No new taxes. Governance reforms include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>abolishing both the legislatively appointed DOT commission and the State Infrastructure Bank (which funds transportation rojects)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The Chamber of Commerce retorts that reform is needed along&#8230;<\/p>\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-266","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\/266","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=266"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=266"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}