{"id":755,"date":"2004-11-21T00:00:03","date_gmt":"2004-11-21T00:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zmetro.com\/?p=755"},"modified":"2004-11-21T00:00:03","modified_gmt":"2004-11-21T00:00:03","slug":"tax_by_the_mile","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=755","title":{"rendered":"Tax by the Mile"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/news\/local\/la-me-dmv16nov16,1,6669621.story?coll=la-headlines-california\">Robert Salladay<\/a> on the California DMV&#8217;s plans to replace the gas tax with a mileage tax based on miles driven:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger on Monday appointed a new Department of Motor Vehicles director who has advocated taxing motorists for every mile they drive ? by placing tracking devices in their cars.<br \/>\nThe idea would mean a significant overhaul of how California collects taxes to maintain its often-crumbling roads. Under the plan, the state gas tax ? now 18 cents a gallon ? would be replaced with a tax on every mile traveled by each car and truck.<br \/>\n<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Interesting privacy issues here&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Robert Salladay on the California DMV&#8217;s plans to replace the gas tax with a mileage tax based on miles driven: Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger on Monday appointed a new Department of Motor Vehicles director who has advocated taxing motorists for every mile they drive ? by placing tracking devices in their cars. The idea would mean [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/755"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=755"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/755\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=755"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=755"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=755"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}