{"id":92,"date":"2015-01-16T20:09:00","date_gmt":"2015-01-16T20:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/2015\/01\/16\/8-reasons-to-abolish-the-gas-tax\/"},"modified":"2015-01-16T20:09:00","modified_gmt":"2015-01-16T20:09:00","slug":"8-reasons-to-abolish-the-gas-tax","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/8-reasons-to-abolish-the-gas-tax\/","title":{"rendered":"8 Reasons to Abolish the Gas Tax"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>8 Reasons why the Gas Tax should be abolished courtesy of the Wall Street Journal:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Cars\u00a0are more efficient, eroding the projected growth of the tax\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>Purchasing Power of the Gas Tax has slipped<\/li>\n<li>Diversions\n<ul>\n<li>1\/4 the federal gas tax\u00a0is diverted to:\n<ul>\n<li>\u00a0mass transit in 6\u00a0metro areas &amp;<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0other programs: \u00a0street cars, ferries, sidewalks, bike lanes, hiking trails, urban planning and \u00a0landscaping nationwide<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Federal spending on &#8220;other programs&#8221; \u00a0has increased 38% since 2008, while highway spending is flat.<\/li>\n<li>Texas recovered only 88 cents of every dollar<\/li>\n<li>7\u00a0states and Washington, D.C. eceived more than twice as much. \u00a0<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;States can build cheaper in any case, since the Davis-Bacon prevailing wage rules and Buy America procurement provisions that accompany federal funding don\u2019t apply.&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/abolish-the-gas-tax-1421281241?wpmm=1&amp;wpisrc=nl_wonk\">WSJ<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>8 Reasons why the Gas Tax should be abolished courtesy of the Wall Street Journal:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Cars\u00a0are more efficient, eroding the projected growth of the tax\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>Purchasing Power of the Gas Tax has slipped<\/li>\n<li>Diversions\n<ul>\n<li>1\/4 the federal gas tax\u00a0is diverted to:\n<ul>\n<li>\u00a0mass transit in 6\u00a0metro areas &amp;<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0other programs: \u00a0street cars, ferries, sidewalks, bike lanes, hiking trails, urban planning and \u00a0landscaping nationwide<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li...<\/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-92","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\/92","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=92"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}