{"id":674,"date":"2015-06-03T15:27:10","date_gmt":"2015-06-03T22:27:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spiken.wpengine.com\/news\/playing-games-with-our-taxes\/"},"modified":"2016-10-21T17:25:35","modified_gmt":"2016-10-22T00:25:35","slug":"playing-games-with-our-taxes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/letters\/playing-games-with-our-taxes\/","title":{"rendered":"Playing games with our taxes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><p>Again, Don Brunnell is right on target (&#8220;People in glass houses&#8221;, May 22, Kent Reporter). It is inconceivable to me that politicians don&#8217;t understand that businesses do not pay taxes, people do. Thus, the political leaders in both parties are responsible for forcing millions of jobs overseas.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>We have the highest corporate tax rate in the world. Is it any wonder that most products in America say made in China.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>Politicians play the bait-and-switch game as well. Recently there was a battle in the City Council and with the mayor over business and occupation tax passed with a promise to spend it all on transportation improvements. However, the mayor and a couple of council members wanted to divert some of the money to a different use. That is a gross lack of integrity on the part of our political leaders. We, the voters, are at a loss on who to believe when campaigns are in progress.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>If all local, state and federal business\/corporate taxes were eliminated, millions of jobs would flow into the United States. The manufacturing jobs would be higher paying than the service industry jobs, and the revenues to every level of government would increase.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p><strong>\u2013 Bill Malinski<\/strong><\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Again, Don Brunnell is right on target (&#8220;People in glass houses&#8221;, May 22, Kent Reporter). It is inconceivable to me that politicians don&#8217;t understand that businesses do not pay taxes, people do.<\/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-674","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-letters"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/674"}],"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=674"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/674\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=674"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=674"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=674"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=674"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}