{"id":9807,"date":"2017-02-10T18:25:24","date_gmt":"2017-02-11T02:25:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spijue.wpengine.com\/news\/lawmaker-proposes-boosting-studded-tire-tax-from-5-to-75\/"},"modified":"2017-02-10T18:25:24","modified_gmt":"2017-02-11T02:25:24","slug":"lawmaker-proposes-boosting-studded-tire-tax-from-5-to-75","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/news\/lawmaker-proposes-boosting-studded-tire-tax-from-5-to-75\/","title":{"rendered":"Lawmaker proposes boosting studded tire tax from $5 to $75"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ANCHORAGE &mdash; An Anchorage state senator has introduced a bill to increase the state tax on studded snow tires.<\/p>\n<p>Republican Cathy Giessel told Anchorage television station KTUU (http:\/\/bit.ly\/2kupDYV) that studded tires contribute significantly to ruts that damage Alaska roads.<\/p>\n<p>The measure introduced Monday would increase the state tax for each studded tire from $5 to $75.<\/p>\n<p>That means the tax for a set of four tires would increase from $20 to $300.<\/p>\n<p>Giessel in her sponsor statement says maintenance comes at a cost and that driving with studded tires is choice.<\/p>\n<p>She says the Alaska Department of Transportation estimates that repairing a two-lane road from ruts costs $1 million per mile.<\/p>\n<p>Giessel says technological advances have made winter tires without studs &ldquo;just about&rdquo; as effective for stopping.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ANCHORAGE &mdash; An Anchorage state senator has introduced a bill to increase the state tax on studded snow tires. Republican Cathy Giessel told Anchorage television station KTUU (http:\/\/bit.ly\/2kupDYV) that studded tires contribute significantly to ruts that damage Alaska roads. The measure introduced Monday would increase the state tax for each studded tire from $5 to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":107,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_stopmodifiedupdate":false,"_modified_date":"","wds_primary_category":4,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[230],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-9807","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-state-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9807","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/107"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9807"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9807\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9807"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9807"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9807"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=9807"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}