{"id":1533,"date":"2009-05-29T13:21:18","date_gmt":"2009-05-29T20:21:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spiken.wpengine.com\/news\/sales-tax-hike-is-the-result-of-light-rail\/"},"modified":"2016-10-23T08:30:38","modified_gmt":"2016-10-23T15:30:38","slug":"sales-tax-hike-is-the-result-of-light-rail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/letters\/sales-tax-hike-is-the-result-of-light-rail\/","title":{"rendered":"Sales tax hike is the result of light rail"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Terry Burlison (May 23 letter to the editor) needs to be made aware that we owe our thanks to the Regional Transit Authority for the April 1 sales-tax increase, not the City of Kent.<\/p>\n<p>Information from the Department of Revenue states that the tax increase will be used to expand and coordinate light-rail, commuter-rail, and express bus service, and improve access to transit facilities.<\/p>\n<p>Sorry to say, but Terry will also be paying 9.5 percent in Renton.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Vicki Cole<\/p>\n<p>Kent<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Terry Burlison (May 23 letter to the editor) needs to be made aware that we owe our thanks to the Regional Transit Authority for the April 1 sales-tax increase, not the City of Kent. Information from the Department of Revenue states that the tax increase will be used to expand and coordinate light-rail, commuter-rail, and [&hellip;]<\/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":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1533"}],"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=1533"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1533\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1533"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1533"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1533"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=1533"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}