{"id":2184596,"date":"2026-10-07T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-10-06T21:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/?p=2184596"},"modified":"2026-10-07T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2026-10-06T21:00:00","slug":"salter-growing-calls-to-suspend-or-eliminate-federal-and-state-gas-taxes-have-consequences-worldnews-com","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/?p=2184596","title":{"rendered":"Salter: Growing calls to suspend or eliminate federal and state gas taxes have consequences &#8211; Worldnews.com"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[analyse_image type=&#8221;featured&#8221; src=&#8221;&#8221;]<\/p>\n<div class=\"main-article mB40\">\n<div id=\"article-url\">\n<p class=\"art-text\"><span dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Below is an opinion column by Sid Salter:  Federal and state fuel taxes are flat taxes. The current spike in gas prices doesn\u2019t bring in more tax revenue for the state or the federal government.  In the past year, voices as disparate as President Trump and members of both houses of Congress, along with<\/span>&#8230;<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t read\u00a0full\u00a0story\n                <\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<div class=\"quote\">&#8220;<i>These holiday gimmicks, like those for state sales taxes, are inefficient at providing relief to consumers. They exacerbate funding issues for roadways, even though road user fees already struggle to cover their costs, while only minimally lowering drivers&#8217; tax bills.<\/i>&#8220;<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>[analyse_source url=&#8221;https:\/\/article.wn.com\/view\/2026\/10\/07\/Salter_Growing_calls_to_suspend_or_eliminate_federal_and_sta\/&#8221;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[analyse_image type=&#8221;featured&#8221; src=&#8221;&#8221;] Below is an opinion column by Sid Salter: Federal and state fuel taxes are flat taxes. The current spike in gas prices doesn\u2019t bring in more tax revenue for the state or the federal government. In the past year, voices as disparate as President Trump and members of both houses of Congress, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[65,226],"class_list":["post-2184596","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-consequence-com","tag-crawlmanager"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2184596","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2184596"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2184596\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2184596"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2184596"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2184596"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}