{"id":173260944,"date":"2010-06-29T08:02:24","date_gmt":"2010-06-29T08:02:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=173260944"},"modified":"2010-06-29T08:02:24","modified_gmt":"2010-06-29T08:02:24","slug":"consider-the-crash-tax","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=173260944","title":{"rendered":"Consider the crash tax"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Another in a long series of jibes against the myth that cars pay their own way.  So the question has come up who pays for the police and fire response to a car crash? And the answer is; all local residents whether they drive or not or if they do drive, the good drivers pay the same as the bad drivers, sort of a subsidy for poor driving I guess.<br \/>\nSo Denver in attempt to balance the budget is considering charging at fault non-residents a fee for crashes they cause in attempt to balance the budget. The fee is estimated to raise $1.13 million annually and is expected to be in the $300 to $400 range just for the fire departments response.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nReference: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thedenverdailynews.com\/article.php?aID=8938\">https:\/\/www.thedenverdailynews.com\/article.php?aID=8938<\/a> oldId.20100627080228782<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another in a long series of jibes against the myth that cars pay their own way. So the question has come up who pays for the police and fire response to a car crash? And the answer is; all local residents whether they drive or not or if they do drive, the good drivers pay &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=173260944\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Consider the crash tax&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-173260944","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biking-elsewhere"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173260944","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=173260944"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173260944\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=173260944"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=173260944"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=173260944"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}