{"id":20001,"date":"2014-02-06T11:22:30","date_gmt":"2014-02-06T19:22:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spiken.wpengine.com\/news\/we-are-taxed-enough-vote-no-on-levy\/"},"modified":"2016-10-22T15:35:30","modified_gmt":"2016-10-22T22:35:30","slug":"we-are-taxed-enough-vote-no-on-levy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/letters\/we-are-taxed-enough-vote-no-on-levy\/","title":{"rendered":"We are taxed enough, vote no on levy"},"content":{"rendered":"

Vote no on the Proposition 2 technology levy. Do not throw your ballot away as I hear some people are doing. Vote. Your taxes will be much higher as there are very few $250,000 homes as used in their example.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

The school administration seems to think we have endless money.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

Why aren’t these levies out on the Kent election four months ago? It cost millions of dollars to run separate votes. Schools say it doesn’t, but I would have to see the figures. Who counts the vote?<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

No one has told us about the number of computers already purchased. How many still exist? Are emails, jokes and pornography blocked? What is done about the missing computers?<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

When the last levy passed they said teachers would update the computer systems, and no additional staff would be needed. Did that happen?<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

Kids nowadays are just as smart as past generations but are not taught to think. Instead, just punch a button. Why do you think many cannot fill out a job application if computers are not present?<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

Lower grades do not need computers. The 10th, 11th and 12th grade classes could have computer classes furnished as a regular class.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

In short, many of us are taxed to the hilt. Fire, city, county, gas tax and state taxes.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\u2013 Gene Bremner<\/strong><\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Vote no on the Proposition 2 technology levy. Do not throw your ballot away as I hear some people are doing. Vote. Your taxes will be much higher as there are very few $250,000 homes as used in their example.<\/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-20001","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-letters"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20001"}],"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=20001"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20001\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20001"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20001"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20001"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=20001"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}