{"id":173,"date":"2026-07-20T12:28:00","date_gmt":"2026-07-20T17:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/governedbyidiots.com\/?p=173"},"modified":"2026-07-20T12:28:00","modified_gmt":"2026-07-20T17:28:00","slug":"rt-by-chicagocontrar1-i-wonder-what-honest-abe-would-think-about-a-gas-tax-that-goes-up-automatically-every-year-if-elected-officials-believe-taxes-should-increase-they-should-have-to-sta","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/governedbyidiots.com\/?p=173","title":{"rendered":"\u200bRT by @ChicagoContrar1: I wonder what Honest Abe would think about a gas tax that goes up automatically every year. If elected officials believe taxes should increase, they should have to stand before the people and vote for it. That&#8217;s what accountability looks like. Juliana Stratton has been part of the Springfield leadership that put these policies in place. Now she&#8217;s asking voters to give her an even bigger leadership role in Washington. I don&#8217;t think we&#8217;ve seen the kind of results that deserve a promotion.\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I wonder what Honest Abe would think about a gas tax that goes up automatically every year.<\/p>\n<p>If elected officials believe taxes should increase, they should have to stand before the people and vote for it. That&#8217;s what accountability looks like.<\/p>\n<p>Juliana Stratton has been part of the Springfield leadership that put these policies in place. Now she&#8217;s asking voters to give her an even bigger leadership role in Washington. I don&#8217;t think we&#8217;ve seen the kind of results that deserve a promotion.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/nitter.net\/DonTracyForIL\/status\/2079257025440067759#m\"><br \/>\n<br \/>Video<br \/>\n  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/nitter.net\/pic\/amplify_video_thumb%2F2077565795874275328%2Fimg%2FrNGKJxxfmDehfr1p.jpg\" \/><br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I wonder what Honest Abe would think about a gas tax that goes up automatically every year. If elected officials believe taxes should increase, they should have to stand before the people and vote for it. That&#8217;s what accountability looks like. Juliana Stratton has been part of the Springfield leadership that put these policies in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":174,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-173","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cnn-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/governedbyidiots.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/governedbyidiots.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/governedbyidiots.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/governedbyidiots.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/governedbyidiots.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=173"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/governedbyidiots.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/governedbyidiots.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/174"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/governedbyidiots.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/governedbyidiots.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/governedbyidiots.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}