{"id":36310,"date":"2018-08-17T10:30:00","date_gmt":"2018-08-17T17:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/letters\/cost-of-living-seniors-being-thrown-under-the-bus\/"},"modified":"2018-08-17T10:30:00","modified_gmt":"2018-08-17T17:30:00","slug":"cost-of-living-seniors-being-thrown-under-the-bus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/letters\/cost-of-living-seniors-being-thrown-under-the-bus\/","title":{"rendered":"Cost of living: Seniors being thrown under the bus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>More and more senior citizens are taxed out of their homes by a high-paid governor, King County executive and city mayors.<\/p>\n<p>Government officials are promoting issues dealing with drugs, the homeless, sanctuary and welcome city status while giving no thought to giving seniors tax breaks.<\/p>\n<p>Every day we hear of senior citizens who have filed for bankruptcy or have moved out of state in order to survive because of our high local taxes.<\/p>\n<p>And lawmakers have caused crime to proliferate at a high cost to taxpayers.<\/p>\n<p>The city of Kent dug itself into the tax hole by sponsoring HUD housing, which pays no taxes and is still promoting more welfare programs.<\/p>\n<p>Food for thought.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>&#8211; Gene Bremner <\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More and more senior citizens are taxed out of their homes by a high-paid governor, King County executive and city mayors.<\/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-36310","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-letters"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36310"}],"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=36310"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36310\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36310"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36310"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=36310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}