{"id":520975,"date":"2010-04-08T15:42:58","date_gmt":"2010-04-08T19:42:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/seattletimes.nwsource.com\/html\/northwestvoices\/2011557429_senatepullssalestaxincrease.html?syndication=rss"},"modified":"2010-04-08T15:42:58","modified_gmt":"2010-04-08T19:42:58","slug":"senate-pulls-sales-tax-increase","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/520975","title":{"rendered":"Senate pulls sales-tax increase"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Budget will not budge with beer tax<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A beer tax? You have been in special session for a month and that is what you come up with to solve our budget problems? [\u201cSales-tax increase off table,\u201d page one, April 8]<\/p>\n<p>But only on major labels \u2014 not on microbrews because that would hurt the First Mike\u2019s discretionary spending budget. You cannot be serious.<\/p>\n<p>How about a tax on hair spray and makeup, but only on elected officials? That should be able to raise a tidy sum from just the purchases made by Gov. Chris Gregoire and Senate Majority Leader Lisa Brown \u2014 although one could argue these purchases would not be discretionary.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u2014 Dan Eich, Olympia<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Budget will not budge with beer tax A beer tax? You have been in special session for a month and that is what you come up with to solve our budget problems? [\u201cSales-tax increase off table,\u201d page one, April 8] But only on major labels \u2014 not on microbrews because that would hurt the First [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2861,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-520975","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/520975","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2861"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=520975"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/520975\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=520975"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=520975"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=520975"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}