{"id":405,"date":"2008-11-30T16:03:55","date_gmt":"2008-11-30T20:03:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cnht.org\/news\/?p=405"},"modified":"2017-12-18T16:21:07","modified_gmt":"2017-12-18T21:21:07","slug":"nh-legislator-wants-to-increase-gas-tax","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cnht.org\/news\/2008\/11\/30\/nh-legislator-wants-to-increase-gas-tax\/","title":{"rendered":"N.H. legislator wants to increase gas tax"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>November 30, 2008<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.seacoastonline.com\/articles\/20081130-BIZ-811300331\">Seacoast Online<\/a><\/p>\n<p>CONCORD (AP) \u2014 A grim financial outlook for highway construction in New Hampshire has some state lawmakers considering a gasoline-tax increase. Rep. David Campbell, D-Nashua, who led a study of the state&#8217;s highway fund, said recently that he will sponsor a bill to increase the tax. He&#8217;ll figure out an amount after he knows how much federal aid the state will get. Campbell spoke on the same day the state Transportation Department made its budget request at a hearing in Concord. Transportation Commissioner George Campbell, who is no relation, warned of a $1 billion shortfall in the state&#8217;s 10-year highway construction plan. Gov. John Lynch has opposed increasing the gasoline tax in the past. Spokesman Colin Manning says Lynch is discussing alternatives with the department.<\/p>\n<p>###<\/p>\n<p><em>Note: Representative David Campbell, D-Nashua, received a &#8220;D&#8221; rating from the independent NHLA group for the 2006-2008 session.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>November 30, 2008 Seacoast Online CONCORD (AP) \u2014 A grim financial outlook for highway construction in New Hampshire has some state lawmakers considering a gasoline-tax increase. Rep. David Campbell, D-Nashua, who led a study of the state&#8217;s highway fund, said recently that he will sponsor a bill to increase the tax. He&#8217;ll figure out an [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3,71,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-405","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles-nh","category-governor-watch","category-legislation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cnht.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/405","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cnht.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cnht.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cnht.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cnht.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=405"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.cnht.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/405\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6653,"href":"https:\/\/www.cnht.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/405\/revisions\/6653"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cnht.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cnht.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=405"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cnht.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}