{"id":832,"date":"2017-08-09T18:51:00","date_gmt":"2017-08-09T18:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/2017\/08\/09\/3-benefits-city-and-county-transportation-sales-tax\/"},"modified":"2017-08-09T18:51:00","modified_gmt":"2017-08-09T18:51:00","slug":"3-benefits-city-and-county-transportation-sales-tax","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/3-benefits-city-and-county-transportation-sales-tax\/","title":{"rendered":"3 Benefits. City and County Transportation Sales Tax."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>St. Louis County instituted a 0.5% transportation sales tax 3 years ago and the City of Duluth is gearing up to implement the same.<\/p>\n<p>The local governements point to these benefits from the transportation sales tax:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The sales tax spreads the road maintenance burden\n<ul>\n<li>everyone who visits contributes, not just residents<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>The City believes it will triple available revenue for road maintenance<\/li>\n<li>3 years in and\u00a0the county has invested $16 million in county roads within Duluth City Limits\n<ul>\n<li>The City stopped relying on funding from state and federal sources to make road repairs<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wdio.com\/news\/duluth-transportation-sales-tax-streets-roads-repairs-improvements\/4567409\/\">WDIO |\u00a0Duluth Mayor Proposes Transportation Sales Tax<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>St. Louis County instituted a 0.5% transportation sales tax 3 years ago and the City of Duluth is gearing up to implement the same.<\/p>\n<p>The local governements point to these benefits from the transportation sales tax:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The sales tax spreads the road maintenance burden\n<ul>\n<li>everyone who visits contributes, not just residents<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>The City believes it will triple available revenue for road maintenance<\/li>\n<li>3 years in and\u00a0the county has invested $16 million in county roads within Duluth City Limits\n<ul>\n<li>The City\u2026<\/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":[8,30,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-832","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-funding","category-local-government","category-roads","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/832","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=832"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/832\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=832"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=832"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=832"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}