{"id":36406,"date":"2018-08-24T09:30:00","date_gmt":"2018-08-24T16:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/letters\/cost-of-living-seniors-can-obtain-some-tax-relief\/"},"modified":"2018-08-24T09:30:00","modified_gmt":"2018-08-24T16:30:00","slug":"cost-of-living-seniors-can-obtain-some-tax-relief","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/letters\/cost-of-living-seniors-can-obtain-some-tax-relief\/","title":{"rendered":"Cost of living: Seniors can obtain some tax relief"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Gene Bremner, food for thought: I&rsquo;m a senior in the city limits of Kent, and my property taxes were cut in half when I applied for tax relief for low-income seniors and disabled persons.<\/p>\n<p>It&rsquo;s available to those 61 years and older, with an income of $40,000 or less.<\/p>\n<p>I wouldn&rsquo;t exactly call that &ldquo;under the bus.&rdquo; If you want to complain, I&rsquo;d suggest you discuss the Kent City Council&rsquo;s decision not to join the rest of Washington state &#8211; with a few exceptions &#8211; to refuse to allow the sale of marijuana within our city limits. This ridiculous decision sends tax dollars to neighboring cities.<\/p>\n<p>Until this changes, I won&rsquo;t support even one dollar for anything they want to do.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>&#8211; Jude LeGrande <\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gene Bremner, food for thought: I&rsquo;m a senior in the city limits of Kent, and my property taxes were cut in half when I applied for tax relief for low-income seniors and disabled persons.<\/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-36406","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-letters"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36406"}],"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=36406"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36406\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36406"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36406"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36406"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=36406"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}