{"id":74,"date":"2015-01-02T23:59:00","date_gmt":"2015-01-02T23:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/2015\/01\/02\/michigan-sends-transportation-funding-proposal-to-voters\/"},"modified":"2015-01-02T23:59:00","modified_gmt":"2015-01-02T23:59:00","slug":"michigan-sends-transportation-funding-proposal-to-voters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/michigan-sends-transportation-funding-proposal-to-voters\/","title":{"rendered":"Michigan Sends Transportation Funding Proposal to Voters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Michigan passed new transportation funding mechanisms that will require voter approval. The proposal includes:<\/p>\n<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mlive.com\/lansing-news\/index.ssf\/2014\/12\/michigan_lawmakers_approve_roa.html\">Michigan Live<\/a>:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Convert existing 19-cent per gallon gasoline and 15-cent per gallon diesel taxes to a wholesale version. Gas\u00a0taxes could top 41 cents by October 2015, but there would be no additional sales tax, and all resulting revenue would go to transportation.<\/li>\n<li>Eliminate some annual vehicle registration fee discounts, increase fees for heavy trucks and create new surcharges for electric and hybrid vehicles whose owners pay fewer fuel taxes.<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Strengthen warranty requirements for construction projects and require more competitive bidding.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Fully restore the state\u2019s Earned Income Tax Credit to 20%\u00a0of the federal level. It was scaled back to 6%\u00a0in 2011.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Michigan passed new transportation funding mechanisms that will require voter approval. The proposal includes:<\/p>\n<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mlive.com\/lansing-news\/index.ssf\/2014\/12\/michigan_lawmakers_approve_roa.html\">Michigan Live<\/a>:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Convert existing 19-cent per gallon gasoline and 15-cent per gallon diesel taxes to a wholesale version. Gas\u00a0taxes could top 41 cents by October 2015, but there would be no additional sales tax, and all resulting revenue would go to transpo&#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":[8,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-funding","category-legislative-trend","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74","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=74"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}