{"id":376,"date":"2016-01-02T15:12:00","date_gmt":"2016-01-02T15:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/2016\/01\/02\/interim-lege-trend-transportation-sales-tax-funding-ideas-from-the-land-of-cheese\/"},"modified":"2016-01-02T15:12:00","modified_gmt":"2016-01-02T15:12:00","slug":"interim-lege-trend-transportation-sales-tax-funding-ideas-from-the-land-of-cheese","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/interim-lege-trend-transportation-sales-tax-funding-ideas-from-the-land-of-cheese\/","title":{"rendered":"INTERIM Lege Trend: Transportation Sales Tax. Funding Ideas from the Land of Cheese."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Where is this legislative movement happening? <\/strong>\u00a0It is a\u00a0bipartisan transportation plan in Wisconsin<\/p>\n<p><strong>Did Republicans or Democrats come up with this idea?<\/strong>\u00a0Republicans<\/p>\n<p><strong>What stumbling blocks do they have?<\/strong>\u00a0Convincing collegues it is not a tax increase<\/p>\n<p><strong>How do they counter this?<\/strong>\u00a0By focusing on the local vote requirement.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What does the legislation allow?<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Allow counties, with voter approval in a referendum, to impose a half-cent sales tax<\/li>\n<li>Sales tax revenue is then distributed to local municipalities for road maintenance<\/li>\n<li>Municipalities would have to maintain pre-existing spending levels so the funds wouldn\u2019t displace spending in another area of the budget.<\/li>\n<li>Voters would have to approve the sales tax every four years.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Reminiscent of Texas&#8217; Transportation Reinvestment Zones?<\/strong>\u00a0Yes,<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/m.host.madison.com\/wsj\/news\/local\/govt-and-politics\/bill-allowing-counties-to-raise-half-cent-sales-tax-for\/article_f0e441f6-d88b-5a5d-91df-3c86d81aa777.html\">Wisconsin State Journal |\u00a0Bill allowing counties to raise half-cent sales tax for transportation has bipartisan support<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Where is this legislative movement happening? <\/strong>\u00a0It is a\u00a0bipartisan transportation plan in Wisconsin<\/p>\n<p><strong>Did Republicans or Democrats come up with this idea?<\/strong>\u00a0Republicans<\/p>\n<p><strong>What stumbling blocks do they have?<\/strong>\u00a0Convincing collegues it is not a tax increase<\/p>\n<p><strong>How do they counter this?<\/strong>\u00a0By focusing on the local vote requirement.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What does the legislation allow?<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Allow counties, with voter approval in a referendum, to impose a half-cent sales tax<\/li>\n<li>Sales tax revenue is then distributed to local&#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":[36,8,37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-376","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2017-issue","category-funding","category-special-districts","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376","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=376"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=376"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=376"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}