{"id":438,"date":"2016-03-04T21:49:00","date_gmt":"2016-03-04T21:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/2016\/03\/04\/trend-local-tax-increases-for-transportation\/"},"modified":"2016-03-04T21:49:00","modified_gmt":"2016-03-04T21:49:00","slug":"trend-local-tax-increases-for-transportation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/trend-local-tax-increases-for-transportation\/","title":{"rendered":"TREND: Local tax increases for Transportation."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>What state is considering allowing local entities to rise taxes for transportation?<\/strong>\u00a0Massachusettes<\/p>\n<p><strong>What states do they point to that are already allowing local entities to raise sales taxes for transportation projects?<\/strong>\u00a0California, Colorado, Ohio<\/p>\n<p><strong>What would the MA bill do?<\/strong>\u00a0Require a local ballot before raising sales taxes that would be solely dedicated to local transportation projects<\/p>\n<p><strong>What are example local transportation projects? \u00a0<\/strong>fix\u00a0local roads, expand rail service and create more bike paths<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/malegislature.gov\/Bills\/189\/Senate\/S1474\">Massachusettes S.1474<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/wwlp.com\/2016\/03\/03\/proposed-bill-would-allow-voters-to-raise-local-taxes-for-transportation\/\">WWLP 22 |\u00a0Proposed bill would allow voters to raise local taxes for transportation<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><strong>What state is considering allowing local entities to rise taxes for transportation?<\/strong>\u00a0Massachusettes<\/p>\n<p><strong>What states do they point to that are already allowing local entities to raise sales taxes for transportation projects?<\/strong>\u00a0California, Colorado, Ohio<\/p>\n<p><strong>What would the MA bill do?<\/strong>\u00a0Require a local ballot before raising sales taxes that would be solely dedicated to local transportation projects<\/p>\n<p><strong>What are example local transportation projects? \u00a0<\/strong>fix\u00a0local roads, expand rail service and create more&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-438","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-funding","category-local-government","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438","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=438"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=438"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=438"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=438"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}