{"id":2838,"date":"2016-02-24T16:43:44","date_gmt":"2016-02-25T00:43:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spiken.wpengine.com\/news\/matter-of-common-sense\/"},"modified":"2016-10-22T01:45:33","modified_gmt":"2016-10-22T08:45:33","slug":"matter-of-common-sense","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/letters\/matter-of-common-sense\/","title":{"rendered":"Matter of common sense"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><p>I love the upcoming April 26 ballot measure vote. The timing is perfect. It shows me how much common sense the Regional Fire Authority has.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>After all, I&#8217;ll be writing a heftier check than last years&#8217;s on April 15 where a large part of my tax dollars will go to lots of government waste, funding offensive things like Planned Parenthood&#8217;s abortion factories and paying retirement checks to political pals like the IRS&#8217; Lois Lerner.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>In the meantime, the nation&#8217;s GDP averages 2.8 percent for the past 5 years and Kent&#8217;s homelessness is exploding and has gone unchecked by the current Kent government for some time. It&#8217;s the same common sense being used to apply a proposed $10 per oil barrel tax for extravagant green infrastructure projects for political pals and ones that I may not see or use in this lifetime.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>RFA, clean up your house and your math skills and rethink your metric. $1 per $1,000 is way out of line as the nation struggles to stave off a recession. By April 26 we could very well be in one. And then won&#8217;t you look really out of touch and self-serving. Find a way that costs less and cuts the fat.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>I do more with less or I don&#8217;t do. Welcome to my world.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p><strong>\u2013 Joy Etienne<\/strong><\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I love the upcoming April 26 ballot measure vote. The timing is perfect. It shows me how much common sense the Regional Fire Authority has.<\/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-2838","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-letters"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2838"}],"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=2838"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2838\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2838"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2838"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2838"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=2838"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}