{"id":10683,"date":"2015-10-28T16:09:56","date_gmt":"2015-10-28T23:09:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spiken.wpengine.com\/news\/we-need-new-approach-without-raising-taxes\/"},"modified":"2016-10-22T13:20:37","modified_gmt":"2016-10-22T20:20:37","slug":"we-need-new-approach-without-raising-taxes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/letters\/we-need-new-approach-without-raising-taxes\/","title":{"rendered":"We need new approach without raising taxes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><p class=\"p1\">I agree with the letter in the Oct. 23 edition. Enough with property tax hikes.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s2\">Every time I turn around, someone wants to raise property taxes. The mayor of Kent, King County or the state. And now the Kent City Council supports King County\u2019s efforts to raise them. Really? The city of Kent recently proposed its own property tax hike.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s2\">How about a new approach? If you don\u2019t have the money to pay for something new without raising taxes, don\u2019t do it. And if the city can\u2019t afford to give the mayor a raise without raising taxes, now is not the time.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p class=\"p3\"><strong><em>\u2013 Linda Barker<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>\u00a0<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I agree with the letter in the Oct. 23 edition. Enough with property tax hikes.<\/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-10683","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-letters"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10683"}],"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=10683"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10683\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10683"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10683"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=10683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}