{"id":33529,"date":"2018-03-09T10:30:00","date_gmt":"2018-03-09T18:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/letters\/no-to-kent-proposition-a\/"},"modified":"2018-03-09T10:30:00","modified_gmt":"2018-03-09T18:30:00","slug":"no-to-kent-proposition-a","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/letters\/no-to-kent-proposition-a\/","title":{"rendered":"No to Kent Proposition A"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The commentary from Andrea Keikkala&rsquo;s &ldquo;Support Proposition A for a safer community&rdquo; (March 2, Kent Reporter) suggests to levy an additional 2 percent tax increase on utilities on the April 24 ballot to pay for Kent Police.<\/p>\n<p>The taxpayers of King County have recently been hit repeatedly with very large tax increases &#8211; ST3 property tax, school property tax increase, two Kent school levies, etc.<\/p>\n<p>Recently, the King County Council sneakily passed Ordinance 18403, requiring the utilities to pay a &ldquo;rent&rdquo; to the county, which will increase our utility rates already.<\/p>\n<p>When is enough, enough?<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>&#8211; Mark Powell<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The commentary from Andrea Keikkala&rsquo;s &ldquo;Support Proposition A for a safer community&rdquo; (March 2, Kent Reporter) suggests to levy an additional 2 percent tax increase on utilities on the April 24 ballot to pay for Kent Police.<\/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-33529","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-letters"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33529"}],"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=33529"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33529\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33529"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33529"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33529"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=33529"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}