{"id":325,"date":"2015-10-23T19:35:00","date_gmt":"2015-10-23T19:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/2015\/10\/23\/lege-trend-sales-tax-for-road-funding-county-based-funding-with-pros-cons\/"},"modified":"2015-10-23T19:35:00","modified_gmt":"2015-10-23T19:35:00","slug":"lege-trend-sales-tax-for-road-funding-county-based-funding-with-pros-cons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/lege-trend-sales-tax-for-road-funding-county-based-funding-with-pros-cons\/","title":{"rendered":"Lege Trend: Sales Tax for Road Funding. County Based Funding with Pros &#038; Cons."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Utah voters will be asked to approve whether counties can add a 0.25 percent general sales tax, excluding food, to be used exclusively for transportation at the county level.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Opponents Say:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Burdens\u00a0\u00a0taxpayers<\/li>\n<li>Taxpayers will soon pay more in\u00a0fuel tax &amp;\u00a0property taxes<\/li>\n<li>Utah should instead advocate for a\u00a0Oregon-style vehicle-miles-traveled system.\u00a0<br \/>\n\t\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Supporters Say:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Necessary to help address population growth, deteriorating roads, and insufficient funds<\/li>\n<li>A fuel tax increase alone is not enough to keep up with transportation funding needs.<\/li>\n<li>Counties need adeqaute funding so\u00a0that they don&#8217;t put off maintenance work, making it more expensive.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.landlinemag.com\/Story.aspx?StoryID=29985#.ViqL8IQ-B7M\">LandLine Mag.com |\u00a0ELECTION 2015: Utah counties to decide on transportation tax\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Utah voters will be asked to approve whether counties can add a 0.25 percent general sales tax, excluding food, to be used exclusively for transportation at the county level.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Opponents Say:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Burdens\u00a0\u00a0taxpayers<\/li>\n<li>Taxpayers will soon pay more in\u00a0fuel tax &amp;\u00a0property taxes<\/li>\n<li>Utah should instead advocate for a\u00a0Oregon-style vehicle-miles-traveled system.\u00a0<br \/>\n\t\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Supporters Say:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Necessary to help address population growth, deteriorating roads, and insufficient funds<\/li>\n<li>A fuel tax increase alone&#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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-325","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\/325","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=325"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=325"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=325"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}