{"id":8843,"date":"2016-06-30T19:09:59","date_gmt":"2016-06-30T23:09:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shorebeat.com\/brick\/?p=8843"},"modified":"2016-06-30T19:09:59","modified_gmt":"2016-06-30T23:09:59","slug":"n-j-gas-tax-hike-on-hold","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/2016\/06\/n-j-gas-tax-hike-on-hold\/","title":{"rendered":"N.J. Gas Tax Hike on Hold"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_4239\" style=\"width: 688px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/gs_sign.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-0\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4239\" class=\"wp-image-4239 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/gs_sign.jpg\" alt=\"An LED gas station sign. (File Photo)\" width=\"678\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/gs_sign.jpg 678w, https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/gs_sign-400x177.jpg 400w, https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/gs_sign-150x66.jpg 150w, https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/gs_sign-500x221.jpg 500w, https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/gs_sign-600x265.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 678px) 100vw, 678px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-4239\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">An LED gas station sign. (File Photo)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Breathe easy, drivers. You\u2019re off the hook for a gas tax increase, at least for now.<\/p>\n<p>The state Senate has chosen against voting for a bipartisan compromise bill that would have raised the gas tax by 23 cents based on current fuel prices in exchange for a reduction of the state sales tax by 1 percent.<\/p>\n<p>The move came after Senate President Steve Sweeney, a Democrat, announced that there wasn\u2019t enough support in his chamber for the plan, already passed by the Assembly, to move forward.<\/p>\n<div class=\"encrypted-content\">\n<p>\u201cThe Senate just doesn\u2019t agree with the Assembly\u2019s bill,\u201d Sweeney said, according to a report in the Press of Atlantic City. \u201cThe Senate feels it\u2019s too expensive.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"encrypted-content\">The Senate\u2019s version of the bill eliminated the estate tax.<\/div>\n<div class=\"encrypted-content\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"encrypted-content\">Meanwhile, the Transportation Trust Fund, which was originally expected to run out on June 30, will remain solvent through Aug. 10, the state treasurer announced Thursday. That announcement bolstered the decision to put the tax increase on hold while the Senate decides on a new compromise.<\/div>\n<div class=\"fcbkbttn_buttons_block\" id=\"fcbkbttn_left\"><div class=\"fb-share-button fcbkbttn_large_button \" data-href=\"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/2016\/06\/n-j-gas-tax-hike-on-hold\/\" data-type=\"button_count\" data-size=\"large\"><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Breathe easy, drivers. You\u2019re off the hook for a gas tax increase, at least for now. The state Senate has chosen against voting for a bipartisan compromise bill that would have raised the gas tax by 23 cents based on current fuel prices in exchange for a reduction of the state sales tax by 1 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4239,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2],"tags":[24,2269,942],"class_list":["post-8843","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-government","tag-brick-nj-news","tag-gas-tax-increase","tag-new-jersey"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/gs_sign.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pgt2Ft-2iD","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8843","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8843"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8843\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4239"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8843"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8843"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8843"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}