{"id":1605,"date":"2013-02-18T15:03:22","date_gmt":"2013-02-18T20:03:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/abnewsflash.com\/?p=1605"},"modified":"2013-03-10T14:09:27","modified_gmt":"2013-03-10T18:09:27","slug":"regional-tax-for-regional-transit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/abnewsflash.com\/?p=1605","title":{"rendered":"Regional tax for regional transit?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Should the MBTA be able to raise money through a regional tax to deal with its chronic operating deficit?  Sen. Will Brownsberger is floating the idea.  His trial balloon&#8217;s basket contains a suggestion that an increase in the sales or property tax, subject to voter approval, would be the most likely source of funds.  Sen. Brownsberger wants to know your thoughts, <a href=\"http:\/\/willbrownsberger.com\/forums\/topic\/a-trial-balloon\/\" title=\"Brownsberger: Regional MBTA funding\" target=\"_blank\">weigh in here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\r\n\t<div style=\"\">\r\n\t\t<a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share\" class=\"twitter-share-button\" data-count=\"vertical\" data-text=\"Regional tax for regional transit?\" data-url=\"http:\/\/abnewsflash.com\/?p=1605\" >Tweet<\/a>\r\n\t<\/div>\r\n\t<script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"http:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\"><\/script>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Should the MBTA be able to raise money through a regional tax to deal with its chronic operating deficit? Sen. Will Brownsberger is floating the idea. His trial balloon&#8217;s basket contains a suggestion that an increase in the sales or property tax, subject to voter approval, would be the most likely source of funds. Sen. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[180,287,179],"class_list":["post-1605","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mbta","tag-brownsberger","tag-mbta","tag-taxes"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/abnewsflash.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1605","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/abnewsflash.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/abnewsflash.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/abnewsflash.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/abnewsflash.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1605"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/abnewsflash.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1605\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1753,"href":"http:\/\/abnewsflash.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1605\/revisions\/1753"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/abnewsflash.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1605"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/abnewsflash.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1605"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/abnewsflash.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1605"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}