{"id":241290,"date":"2013-02-21T02:38:37","date_gmt":"2013-02-21T08:38:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?p=241290"},"modified":"2013-02-21T17:14:32","modified_gmt":"2013-02-21T23:14:32","slug":"eltife-use-cash-to-pay-for-highways-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=241290","title":{"rendered":"Eltife: Use Cash to Pay for Highways"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?attachment_id=241209\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-241209\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2013\/02\/thumb_Kevin_Eltife_2-150x106.jpg\" alt=\"thumb_Kevin_Eltife_2\" width=\"150\" height=\"106\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-241209\" \/><\/a>AUSTIN \u2014 Tyler\u2019s state senator addresses the need to find more money for highway funding. Traditionally, according to KETK, the gas tax has been used. Acknowledging that the money has to come from somewhere, Kevin Eltife says, \u201cChoose your poison. None of us like taxes.\u201d But according to Eltife, the state could raise the gas tax a dime, possibly expand the sales tax base, or raise the sales tax rate. <\/p>\n<p>Since the gas tax hasn\u2019t been touched in over 20 years, Eltife says we\u2019ve been financing our roads simply with debt, and as far as he\u2019s concerned, that\u2019s not very conservative. \u201cThe answer,\u201d says Eltife, \u201cis to find a dedicated revenue stream and pay cash.\u201d According to Eltife, that\u2019s not a new idea from him; he says he\u2019s been putting it out there since he first joined the Senate and compares it to the city of Tyler\u2019s half-cent sales tax. As to possible political repercussions, he says, \u201cAll I know to do is name the problems, tell people how I would solve them, tell the truth, and let the chips fall where they may.\u201d <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AUSTIN \u2014 Tyler\u2019s state senator addresses the need to find more money for highway funding. Traditionally, according to KETK, the gas tax has been used. Acknowledging that the money has to come from somewhere, Kevin Eltife says, \u201cChoose your poison. None of us like taxes.\u201d But according to Eltife, the state could raise the gas &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=241290\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Eltife: Use Cash to Pay for Highways<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-241290","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-05 12:45:00","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241290","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=241290"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241290\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":241434,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241290\/revisions\/241434"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=241290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=241290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=241290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}