{"id":11694,"date":"2014-10-22T17:17:22","date_gmt":"2014-10-23T00:17:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spiken.wpengine.com\/news\/kent-missing-out-on-revenue-from-pot-sales\/"},"modified":"2016-10-22T22:50:39","modified_gmt":"2016-10-23T05:50:39","slug":"kent-missing-out-on-revenue-from-pot-sales","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/letters\/kent-missing-out-on-revenue-from-pot-sales\/","title":{"rendered":"Kent missing out on revenue from pot sales"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><p>While Kent is struggling to find new revenue to cover its wishful spending, it refuses to allow pot sales in Kent.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">In an Oct. 3 Kent Reporter article, pot sales will bring in $636 million in taxes statewide through 2019. Kent\u2019s share of this revenue will now go to Tacoma (a short drive) or another nearby city that allows the sales. <\/span><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s1\">Has anyone estimated how much money Kent will lose because of this?<\/span><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p class=\"p3\"><strong><em>\u2013 Brent Benson<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>\u00a0<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While Kent is struggling to find new revenue to cover its wishful spending, it refuses to allow pot sales in Kent.<\/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-11694","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-letters"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11694"}],"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=11694"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11694\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11694"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11694"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11694"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=11694"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}