{"id":1263,"date":"2013-01-14T16:39:34","date_gmt":"2013-01-14T16:39:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/megalextoria.wordpress.com\/?p=1263"},"modified":"2013-01-14T16:39:34","modified_gmt":"2013-01-14T16:39:34","slug":"why-americans-will-soon-pay-more-to-drive-every-mile","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2013\/01\/14\/why-americans-will-soon-pay-more-to-drive-every-mile\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Americans will soon pay more to drive every mile"},"content":{"rendered":"

The financial lookouts who toil in America’s transportation departments have been waving red flags for years that there wasn’t enough money to keep the nation’s 4 million miles of roads and bridges drivable. Now the federal government’s top accountant has told Congress it should experiment with taxing drivers by the mile to make up billions of dollars in shortfalls. The debate isn’t whether you’ll pay more to drive in the future, but how you’ll pay — and how much.<\/p>\n

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The financial lookouts who toil in America’s transportation departments have been waving red flags for years that there wasn’t enough money to keep the nation’s 4 million miles of roads and bridges drivable. Now the federal government’s top accountant has told Congress it should experiment with taxing drivers by the mile to make up billions of dollars in shortfalls. The debate isn’t whether you’ll pay more to drive in the future, but how you’ll pay — and how much. http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/forum2\/index.php?t=msg&goto=33189&#msg_33189<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[1701],"class_list":["post-1263","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-and-politics","tag-taxes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1263","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1263"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1263\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}