Twenty years ago, living in my home in Kent, I received my water bill bi-monthly, around $35.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
Yes, I realize that was 20 years ago \u2013 when I had three kids at home. $35 to $168 while I am using less \u2013 wow, if only my income had gained by such a leap in 20 years.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
Every month I pay approximately $84 \u2013 none of which includes water.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
Access: $13.10<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
Sewer-City rate: $17.96<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
Sewer-Metro rate: $39.70<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
Technology fee: $1<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
Storm drainage: $11.54<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
Then bi-monthly, they add my water usage $12.12.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
The city of Kent, and our elected government officials in general, continues to develop creative ways to increase their spending, thus our fees and taxes, with little benefit to show.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
Our roads are deplorable while our taxes are amongst the highest in the nation.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
The middle class continues to shrink while the spread between the rich and the poor widens.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
Government officials frequently compare our taxes to higher tax-paying foreign nations \u2013 the very nations where people are provided a year off work with pay, father and mother, upon the birth of a child.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
Citizens are provided two weeks off for major family holidays and everyone is provided, quality healthcare, with, yes, even cures for cancer not permitted here in the United States.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
We are reminded we are not a socialist society \u2013 unless you are an elected official with extremely great retirement benefits, unlimited spending limits, and a whole lot of self-righteousness.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
Vote.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
\u2013 Shirley Craig<\/strong><\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Twenty years ago, living in my home in Kent, I received my water bill bi-monthly, around $35.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-10209","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-letters"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10209"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/106"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10209"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10209\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10209"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=10209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}