{"id":615,"date":"2016-10-11T22:33:00","date_gmt":"2016-10-11T22:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/2016\/10\/11\/fund-transportation-with-a-dedicated-tax-mitigated-by-tax-cuts-elsewhere-2-key-pieces-of-info\/"},"modified":"2016-10-11T22:33:00","modified_gmt":"2016-10-11T22:33:00","slug":"fund-transportation-with-a-dedicated-tax-mitigated-by-tax-cuts-elsewhere-2-key-pieces-of-info","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/fund-transportation-with-a-dedicated-tax-mitigated-by-tax-cuts-elsewhere-2-key-pieces-of-info\/","title":{"rendered":"Fund Transportation with a Dedicated Tax Mitigated by Tax Cuts Elsewhere. 2 Key Pieces of Info"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New Jersey Legislature passed a 23 cent gas tax increase to fund transportation.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>What do I need to know about the 23 cent tax gas increase?<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Offset by other tax cuts ($16 billion or $1.4 billion depending who you ask)\n<ul>\n<li>elimination of the estate tax<\/li>\n<li>cuts the sales from 7 cents to 6.625 cents<\/li>\n<li>increased tax benefits for the working poor and veterans<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Also created a 4 member transportation project approval board consisting of:\n<ul>\n<li>Governor appointees<\/li>\n<li>Senate President appointee<\/li>\n<li>Speaker appointee<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.app.com\/story\/news\/local\/new-jersey\/2016\/10\/08\/legislature-oks-gas-tax-bill-awaits-christie-signature\/91784088\/\">Asbury Park Press |\u00a0Legislature OKs higher gas tax; heads to Christie<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Jersey Legislature passed a 23 cent gas tax increase to fund transportation.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>What do I need to know about the 23 cent tax gas increase?<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Offset by other tax cuts ($16 billion or $1.4 billion depending who you ask)\n<ul>\n<li>elimination of the estate tax<\/li>\n<li>cuts the sales from 7 cents to 6.625 cents<\/li>\n<li>increased tax benefits for the working poor and veterans<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Also created a 4 member transportation project approval board consisting of:\n<ul>\n<li>Governor appointees<\/li>\n<li>Senate President appointee<\/li>\n<li>Speaker&#8230;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/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":[8,10,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-615","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-funding","category-legislative-trend","category-roads","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/615","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=615"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/615\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=615"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=615"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}