{"id":16044,"date":"2012-07-26T14:57:59","date_gmt":"2012-07-26T21:57:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spiken.wpengine.com\/news\/measure-not-the-answer-for-parks-roads\/"},"modified":"2016-10-24T00:45:25","modified_gmt":"2016-10-24T07:45:25","slug":"measure-not-the-answer-for-parks-roads","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/letters\/measure-not-the-answer-for-parks-roads\/","title":{"rendered":"Measure not the answer for parks, roads"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><p>I read, with interest, the Kent Reporter article (&#8220;City mulls property tax levy to pay for parks, streets&#8217;, July 29).<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>May I ask: &#8220;Why are homeowners and businesses being considered to fund this? Does not everyone, including apartment dwellers and others, use these also?<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>Does the City Council think that, just because we own homes, we are some kind of &#8220;City savings account?&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>Does the City Council forget that we work, and make ends meet daily, just like everyone else?<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>As a homeowner, I already pay 33-percent tax to the Kent School district, where I have no children attending.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>Perhaps some of the approximately $1,200 paid could be funneled to this project?<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>It&#8217;s ridiculous to just think that a homeowner (many who are losing homes at this time) would be a first-thought source of revenue.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>I ask that the City Council rethink this proposition and come up with a variety of ideas. And for heaven&#8217;s sake, get a citizen committee involved. People have great ideas and could help come up with a workable solution.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p><strong>\u2013 Mary LaFond<\/strong><\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I read, with interest, the Kent Reporter article (&#8220;City mulls property tax levy to pay for parks, streets&#8217;, July 29).<\/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-16044","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-letters"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16044"}],"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=16044"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16044\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16044"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16044"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16044"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=16044"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}