{"id":272,"date":"2015-08-20T20:48:00","date_gmt":"2015-08-20T20:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/2015\/08\/20\/funding-roads-with-cigarette-taxes-on-the-ballot-in-2015\/"},"modified":"2015-08-20T20:48:00","modified_gmt":"2015-08-20T20:48:00","slug":"funding-roads-with-cigarette-taxes-on-the-ballot-in-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/funding-roads-with-cigarette-taxes-on-the-ballot-in-2015\/","title":{"rendered":"Funding Roads with Cigarette Taxes on the Ballot in 2015."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Missouri\u00a0Petroleum Marketers and Convenience Store Association is promoting an initiative to significantly raise tobacco taxes. The details:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A proposed 135%\u00a0tax increase<\/li>\n<li>The funding will allow for top priority safety projects to be done like unsafe bridges and roads<\/li>\n<li>The funding would be effective 1\/1\/17<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wgem.com\/story\/29837341\/2015\/08\/19\/initiative-to-raise-mo-tobacco-tax-could-provide-crucial-transportation-funds\">WGEM.COM<\/a>:\u00a0Proposed tobacco tax hike in Missouri could help area roads<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stltoday.com\/news\/local\/govt-and-politics\/new-campaign-to-raise-missouri-s-tobacco-tax-could-fund\/article_a69da4fe-f76e-5ec4-8018-7b2ca3faf470.html\">St.Louis Post- Dispatch<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Missouri\u00a0Petroleum Marketers and Convenience Store Association is promoting an initiative to significantly raise tobacco taxes. The details:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A proposed 135%\u00a0tax increase<\/li>\n<li>The funding will allow for top priority safety projects to be done like unsafe bridges and roads<\/li>\n<li>The funding would be effective 1\/1\/17<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wgem.com\/story\/29837341\/2015\/08\/19\/initiative-to-raise-mo-tobacco-tax-could-provide-crucial-transportation-funds\">WGEM.COM<\/a>:\u00a0Proposed tobacco tax hike in Missouri could help area roads<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stltoday.com\/news\/local\/govt-and-politics\/new-campaign-to-raise-missouri-s-tobacco-tax-could-fund\/article_a69da4fe-f76e-5ec4-8018-7b2ca3faf470.html\">St.Louis Post- Dispatch<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,8,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-272","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-campaign-trend","category-funding","category-legislative-trend","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272","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=272"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}