{"id":10923,"date":"2012-10-25T06:15:52","date_gmt":"2012-10-25T11:15:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/?p=10923"},"modified":"2012-12-27T13:42:24","modified_gmt":"2012-12-27T19:42:24","slug":"how-to-raise-taxes-in-a-red-state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/2012\/10\/25\/how-to-raise-taxes-in-a-red-state\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Raise Taxes in a Red State"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_10924\"  class=\"wp-caption module image center\" style=\"max-width: 620px;\"><a class=\"fancybox\" title=\"Oklahoma City's Boathouse District is the cornerstone of a revitalized urban core, much of which was built on public works infrastructure paid for by successive tax increases.\" href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/files\/2012\/10\/okc-maps3_web.jpg\" rel=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-10924\" title=\"Oklahoma City Boathouse District\" src=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/files\/2012\/10\/okc-maps3_web.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"620\" height=\"413\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/files\/2012\/10\/okc-maps3_web.jpg 620w, https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/files\/2012\/10\/okc-maps3_web-500x333.jpg 500w, https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/files\/2012\/10\/okc-maps3_web-150x100.jpg 150w, https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/files\/2012\/10\/okc-maps3_web-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-media-credit\">Joe Wertz \/ StateImpact Oklahoma<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Oklahoma City&#39;s Boathouse District is the cornerstone of a revitalized urban core, much of which was built on public works infrastructure paid for by successive tax increases.<\/p>\n<\/div><p>On Nov. 6, Tulsa County voters will go to the polls and decide whether they should extend a sales tax increase.<\/p><p>The Vision2 measure is inspired by the success its inner-state rival, Oklahoma City, has had with MAPS, a series of tax increases that paid for public works projects, school improvements and arena upgrades to lure an NBA team away from Seattle.<\/p><p>Some of the supporters are business leaders and Republican policymakers, who <a href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/2012\/02\/07\/four-things-you-should-know-about-gov-fallins-income-tax-reduction-plan\/\">usually want lower taxes<\/a> at the state level. So why is taxing and spending working at the local level?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Nov. 6, Tulsa County voters will go to the polls and decide whether they should extend a sales tax increase.The Vision2 measure is inspired by the success its inner-state rival, Oklahoma City, has had with MAPS, a series of tax increases that paid for public works projects, school improvements and arena upgrades to lure [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":36,"featured_media":10924,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[492,16],"tags":[247,482,364,177,174,862],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10923"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/36"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10923"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10923\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10939,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10923\/revisions\/10939"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10924"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10923"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10923"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10923"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}