{"id":377,"date":"2007-04-15T06:59:59","date_gmt":"2007-04-15T13:59:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/?p=377"},"modified":"2007-04-15T06:59:59","modified_gmt":"2007-04-15T13:59:59","slug":"tax-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/2007\/04\/15\/tax-time\/","title":{"rendered":"Tax Time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For those of you who procrastinate, now is the time (that&#8217;s me this year&#8230;) April 17th this year to get the Federal and State tribute completed. But what about &#8220;hidden taxes?&#8221;<br \/>\n<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.taxfoundation.org\/UserFiles\/Image\/Fiscal%20Facts\/federal-gas-tax.jpg\" alt=\"Federal Gax Tax Chart\"><br \/>\n<br \/>\nI stumbled across this chart and was unpleasantly surprised to see the growth in the gas tax over the past 20 years. It&#8217;s invisible since it&#8217;s rarely broken out of the total taxes paid on a gallon of fuel. I don&#8217;t object to the gas tax per se, but I do believe there should be transparency in the taxes citizens are asked to pay and some consistency applied to the situation.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nProperty tax, use fees, sales tax, vehicle registration, &#8220;insurance,&#8221; social security &#8211; these are all taxes and they add up quickly. Taxes are necessary to fund our civilization and infrastructure, but I&#8217;d prefer one, visible bill that is either usage based or income based. Wouldn&#8217;t you?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For those of you who procrastinate, now is the time (that&#8217;s me this year&#8230;) April 17th this year to get the Federal and State tribute completed. But what about &#8220;hidden taxes?&#8221; I stumbled across this chart and was unpleasantly surprised to see the growth in the gas tax over the past 20 years. It&#8217;s invisible [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/377"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=377"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/377\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=377"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=377"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=377"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}