{"id":47431,"date":"2009-11-23T19:26:00","date_gmt":"2009-11-24T00:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/2009\/11\/23\/autoline-on-autoblog-with-john-mcelroy\/"},"modified":"2009-11-23T19:26:00","modified_gmt":"2009-11-24T00:26:00","slug":"autoline-on-autoblog-with-john-mcelroy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/47431","title":{"rendered":"Autoline on Autoblog with John McElroy"},"content":{"rendered":"

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How to Raise the Gas Tax<\/big><\/strong><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Raising taxes on gasoline is political suicide in the United States. Any politician foolish enough to propose raising the gas tax would be hounded out of office, or never elected in the first place. We, the American people, will see to that.<\/p>\n

You see, we don’t like taxes of any sort. And we especially hate gas taxes. Owning a car in America isn’t so much of a privilege as it is a necessity. Most our communities don’t have public transportation. So we need our wheels to get to work, or school, or going out for fun, or whatever else we want to do with them. In America, even the poorest among us drive cars. And none of us want the government taxing our mobility out of our reach.<\/p>\n

But maybe the problem is that the American people have never been properly sold on the need to raise the gas tax. Here’s my pitch.<\/p>\n

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\nJohn McElroy<\/em> is host of the TV program <\/em>“Autoline Detroit”<\/a> and daily web video “Autoline Daily”<\/a>. <\/em>Every week he brings his unique insights as an auto industry insider to Autoblog readers.
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Filed under: Autoline on Autoblog How to Raise the Gas Tax Raising taxes on gasoline is political suicide in the United States. Any politician foolish enough to propose raising the gas tax would be hounded out of office, or never elected in the first place. We, the American people, will see to that. You see, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47431","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47431","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47431"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47431\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47431"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47431"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47431"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}