{"id":30041,"date":"2022-06-30T16:29:39","date_gmt":"2022-06-30T21:29:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=30041"},"modified":"2022-06-30T16:29:39","modified_gmt":"2022-06-30T21:29:39","slug":"its-a-different-story-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2022\/06\/30\/its-a-different-story-now\/","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s a Different Story Now"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Then, the stories were all about how Missouri&#8217;s gas taxes were low compared to other states, and <em>it&#8217;s a bad thing<\/em>.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/news.stlpublicradio.org\/economy-business\/2014-12-15\/why-does-missouri-have-the-lowest-gas-prices-in-the-country\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener\">Why Does Missouri Have The Lowest Gas Prices In The Country?<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.columbiatribune.com\/story\/opinion\/letters\/2014\/12\/26\/missouri-gas-tax-should-be\/21698753007\/\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener\">Missouri gas tax should be raised<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.stltoday.com\/opinion\/editorial\/editorial-missouri-needs-a-higher-gas-tax-to-pay-for\/article_dbc03714-7bd9-5739-b7a5-99bdc740b221.html\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener\">Editorial: Missouri needs a higher gas tax to pay for better roads and safer bridges<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Leading to: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsbreak.com\/news\/2132270446625\/proposed-gas-tax-increase-in-missouri-could-raise-price-in-2021\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener\">Proposed gas tax increase in Missouri could raise price in 2021<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Now, the papers are all aflutter: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.stltoday.com\/news\/local\/govt-and-politics\/missouris-gas-tax-going-up-again-friday-as-hike-in-illinois-suspended-for-6-months\/article_163d8391-c43e-5a0f-a0d5-4aab8324a1c9.html#tracking-source=home-top-story\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener\">Missouri&#8217;s gas tax going up again Friday as hike in Illinois suspended for 6 months<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I always note stories that talk about low taxes as though raising tax rates should be a competition between taxing authorities (note I did not say &#8220;governments,&#8221; as through the miracles of modern &#8220;governance,&#8221; non-elected authorities can tax citizens, which I thought led to a revolution sometime in the distant past, before Thefacebook), with the media acting as cheerleaders for more taxes.  Until they don&#8217;t, and their little minds have no hobgoblins, no sir.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Then, the stories were all about how Missouri&#8217;s gas taxes were low compared to other states, and it&#8217;s a bad thing. Why Does Missouri Have The Lowest Gas Prices In The Country? Missouri gas tax should be raised Editorial: Missouri needs a higher gas tax to pay for better roads and safer bridges Leading to: [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30041","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30041","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30041"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30041\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30042,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30041\/revisions\/30042"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30041"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30041"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30041"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}