{"id":1104,"date":"2015-05-06T16:06:12","date_gmt":"2015-05-06T23:06:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spiken.wpengine.com\/news\/taxes-and-spending\/"},"modified":"2016-10-22T01:25:43","modified_gmt":"2016-10-22T08:25:43","slug":"taxes-and-spending","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/letters\/taxes-and-spending\/","title":{"rendered":"Taxes and spending"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><p class=\"p1\">The May 1 political cartoon is not correct.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s2\">Under the Republican plan, current revenue from taxes will allow for an increased spending of 8 percent \u2013 which the Republican plan proposes. The Democrats want to raise taxes. I think the governor wanted 15 percent. The Democratic House was somewhere in between.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s2\">Compromise should not mean needing to raise taxes. The only way that would be a compromise would be if the Republicans proposed to reduce taxes (say to keep spending levels flat). Then there could be a compromise that started with a position of equality and integrity. Otherwise, the Democrats could just ask for way more than they wanted or needed and compromise down to an enormous increase \u2013 like what is being proposed.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s2\">How many of you are getting an 8-percent raise?<\/span><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p class=\"p3\"><strong><em>\u2013 Dean Hazelton<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>\u00a0<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The May 1 political cartoon is not correct. Under the Republican plan, current revenue from taxes will allow for an increased spending of 8 percent &#8230;<\/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-1104","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-letters"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1104"}],"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=1104"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1104\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1104"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=1104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}