{"id":1290,"date":"2006-08-14T19:38:24","date_gmt":"2006-08-14T23:38:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.virushead.net\/vhrandom\/2006\/08\/14\/suspend-the-gas-tax\/"},"modified":"2006-08-14T19:38:24","modified_gmt":"2006-08-14T23:38:24","slug":"suspend-the-gas-tax","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.virushead.net\/vhrandom\/2006\/08\/suspend-the-gas-tax\/","title":{"rendered":"Suspend the Gas Tax"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mark Taylor has called on Gov. Sonny Perdue to suspend the state gas tax in Georgia.<br \/>\nYes, it&#8217;s because he is running for Governor himself. Still.<\/p>\n<p>Perdue has raised the gas tax three times since taking office.  Georgia used to pride itself on having the 2nd lowest gas tax in the nation.  Now it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s the 20th highest gas tax in the nation, up 45% since Gov. Perdue took office. When he brags about the budget, notice where the money came from &#8211; and where it&#8217;s not going.<\/p>\n<p>Ask Gov. Perdue to suspend the gas tax today!  <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lowermygastax.com\">http:\/\/www.lowermygastax.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>While you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re at it, take a quick look at the cheapest gas in your area.  You\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll need it.<\/p>\n<p>(Action sponsored by the Democratic Party of Georgia)<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re not in Georgia, contact your own governor to request the same. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mark Taylor has called on Gov. Sonny Perdue to suspend the state gas tax in Georgia. Yes, it&#8217;s because he is running for Governor himself. Still. Perdue has raised the gas tax three times since taking office. Georgia used to pride itself on having the 2nd lowest gas tax in the nation. Now it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s the 20th highest gas tax in the nation, up 45% since Gov. Perdue took office. When he brags about the budget, notice where the money came&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/www.virushead.net\/vhrandom\/2006\/08\/suspend-the-gas-tax\/\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,3],"tags":[2741,1390,2576,2742,266],"class_list":["post-1290","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-armchair-activism","category-politics","tag-gas-tax","tag-governor","tag-mark-taylor","tag-sonny-purdue","tag-take-action"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.virushead.net\/vhrandom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1290","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.virushead.net\/vhrandom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.virushead.net\/vhrandom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.virushead.net\/vhrandom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.virushead.net\/vhrandom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1290"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.virushead.net\/vhrandom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1290\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.virushead.net\/vhrandom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.virushead.net\/vhrandom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.virushead.net\/vhrandom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}