{"id":274,"date":"2015-08-20T21:04:00","date_gmt":"2015-08-20T21:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/2015\/08\/20\/another-red-state-proposes-raising-the-gas-tax\/"},"modified":"2015-08-20T21:04:00","modified_gmt":"2015-08-20T21:04:00","slug":"another-red-state-proposes-raising-the-gas-tax","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/another-red-state-proposes-raising-the-gas-tax\/","title":{"rendered":"Another Red State Proposes Raising the Gas Tax"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tennessee Governor\u00a0Bill Haslam\u00a0(R)\u00a0is proposing the state\u00a0increase\u00a0the state&#8217;s 21.4 cents-per-gallon gas tax. The current combined, federal and state, gas tax is\u00a0\u00a039.8 cents per gallon.<\/p>\n<p>Tennessee Senate Speaker Ron Ramsey (R-Blountville) says &#8220;If there\u2019s a basic function of government, it is to build infrastructure.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thehill.com\/policy\/transportation\/251151-tennessee-debating-potential-gas-tax-hike\">The Hill<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tennessee Governor\u00a0Bill Haslam\u00a0(R)\u00a0is proposing the state\u00a0increase\u00a0the state&#8217;s 21.4 cents-per-gallon gas tax. The current combined, federal and state, gas tax is\u00a0\u00a039.8 cents per gallon.<\/p>\n<p>Tennessee Senate Speaker Ron Ramsey (R-Blountville) says &#8220;If there\u2019s a basic function of government, it is to build infrastructure.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thehill.com\/policy\/transportation\/251151-tennessee-debating-potential-gas-tax-hike\">The Hill<\/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":[8,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-274","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-funding","category-legislative-trend","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274","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=274"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=274"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}