{"id":70,"date":"2014-12-16T22:58:00","date_gmt":"2014-12-16T22:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/2014\/12\/16\/republican-iowa-governor-yes-to-transportation-funding-from-the-gas-tax\/"},"modified":"2014-12-16T22:58:00","modified_gmt":"2014-12-16T22:58:00","slug":"republican-iowa-governor-yes-to-transportation-funding-from-the-gas-tax","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/republican-iowa-governor-yes-to-transportation-funding-from-the-gas-tax\/","title":{"rendered":"Republican Iowa Governor: Yes to Transportation Funding from the Gas Tax"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Iowa also has a transportation funding crisis. Governor Brandstad is looking for a bipartisan solution. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>To get to the revenue levels Iowa needs, the following proposals fit the bill:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>10 cent gas tax increase &amp; index the gas tax to inflation<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;A \u201ccombination\u201d tax that lowered the per-gallon tax to 16 cents and added a 5 percent sales tax on the retail price of fuel.&#8221; \u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/muscatinejournal.com\/news\/branstad-seeks-talks-on-bipartisan-transportation-funding-solution\/article_5d5d7f62-3506-5432-a818-4dd2a9514519.html\">Muscatine Iowa Journal\u00a0<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Iowa also has a transportation funding crisis. Governor Brandstad is looking for a bipartisan solution. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>To get to the revenue levels Iowa needs, the following proposals fit the bill:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>10 cent gas tax increase &amp; index the gas tax to inflation<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;A \u201ccombination\u201d tax that lowered the per-gallon tax to 16 cents and added a 5 percent sales tax on the retail price of fuel.&#8221; \u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/muscatinejournal.com\/news\/branstad-seeks-talks-on-bipartisan-transporta...<\/a><\/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-70","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\/70","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=70"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}