{"id":69,"date":"2014-12-11T21:23:00","date_gmt":"2014-12-11T21:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/2014\/12\/11\/nichols-metcalf-support-vehicle-sales-tax-dedication-to-txdot\/"},"modified":"2014-12-11T21:23:00","modified_gmt":"2014-12-11T21:23:00","slug":"nichols-metcalf-support-vehicle-sales-tax-dedication-to-txdot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/nichols-metcalf-support-vehicle-sales-tax-dedication-to-txdot\/","title":{"rendered":"Nichols &#038; Metcalf Support Vehicle Sales Tax Dedication to TXDOT"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Take aways from a Conroe forum featuring Senator Nichols and Representative-Elect Metcalf:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>$3.5Billion can be added to road funding by dedicating vehcile sales tax to TXDOT<\/li>\n<li>Cut unnecessary spending\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>To offset the hit to general revenue from dedicating the vehicle sales tax, Metcalf is quoted as saying &#8220;Our plan is to add 10 percent of the funds to the road funds over a 10-year span.&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>[<a href=\"http:\/\/www.yourhoustonnews.com\/courier\/news\/senator-nichols-vows-to-further-push-road-funding-after-election\/article_935580e7-40d9-54e5-a391-d7279685cc25.html\">The Courier of Montgomery County<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Take aways from a Conroe forum featuring Senator Nichols and Representative-Elect Metcalf:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>$3.5Billion can be added to road funding by dedicating vehcile sales tax to TXDOT<\/li>\n<li>Cut unnecessary spending\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>To offset the hit to general revenue from dedicating the vehicle sales tax, Metcalf is quoted as saying &#8220;Our plan is to add 10 percent of the funds to the road funds over a 10-year span.&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>[<a href=\"http:\/\/www.yourhoustonnews.com\/courier\/news\/senator...<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,8,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-69","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2015-legislation","category-funding","category-roads","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69","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=69"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}