{"id":18006,"date":"2015-11-04T16:55:15","date_gmt":"2015-11-05T00:55:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spiken.wpengine.com\/news\/unreasonably-taxed-in-our-city\/"},"modified":"2016-10-22T02:10:31","modified_gmt":"2016-10-22T09:10:31","slug":"unreasonably-taxed-in-our-city","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/letters\/unreasonably-taxed-in-our-city\/","title":{"rendered":"Unreasonably taxed in our city"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><p>It is close to criminal how our property taxes are rising, not including proposals for hikes not yet in effect.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>It&#8217;s time for the city of Kent to live within its means, like most folks do with their own budgets.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>No B&amp;O tax increase? Why not? The answer is apparent. This insanity needs to change direction. Hey taxpayers, consider your next vote.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>Taxing Kent&#8217;s homeowners is not the only solution to repairing poor choices by those who represent us.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>There is a need to engage people with better money management skills to run our city and not just protecting their own interests.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p><strong>\u2013\u00a0Pat Gieseking<\/strong><\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is close to criminal how our property taxes are rising, not including proposals for hikes not yet in effect.<\/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-18006","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-letters"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18006"}],"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=18006"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18006\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18006"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18006"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18006"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=18006"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}