{"id":523010,"date":"2010-04-09T18:59:32","date_gmt":"2010-04-09T22:59:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/seattletimes.nwsource.com\/html\/northwestvoices\/2011570922_turningtotacomaforsolutiontopanhandlingtroubles.html?syndication=rss"},"modified":"2010-04-09T18:59:32","modified_gmt":"2010-04-09T22:59:32","slug":"turning-to-tacoma-for-solution-to-panhandling-troubles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/523010","title":{"rendered":"Turning to Tacoma for solution to panhandling troubles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Support temporary business tax surcharge<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>As a Washington state service business \u2014massage therapy \u2014I would gladly pay a temporary business tax surcharge [\u201cFatigued lawmakers hunt for final budget votes,\u201d page one, April 9], which would help balance the budget without cutting essential services for our children, families and the least well-off among us.<\/p>\n<p>I urge the people who provide us with beer, soda pop, candy and gum to also support these temporary taxes.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u2014 Jerome Chroman, Seattle<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Support temporary business tax surcharge As a Washington state service business \u2014massage therapy \u2014I would gladly pay a temporary business tax surcharge [\u201cFatigued lawmakers hunt for final budget votes,\u201d page one, April 9], which would help balance the budget without cutting essential services for our children, families and the least well-off among us. I urge [&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-523010","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/523010","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=523010"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/523010\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=523010"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=523010"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=523010"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}