{"id":3992,"date":"2007-09-05T01:01:00","date_gmt":"2007-09-05T01:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=3992"},"modified":"2017-11-24T17:36:41","modified_gmt":"2017-11-24T23:36:41","slug":"verizon-agrees-to-have-its-customers-pay-tax","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2007\/09\/05\/verizon-agrees-to-have-its-customers-pay-tax\/","title":{"rendered":"Verizon Agrees To Have Its Customers Pay Tax"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>That&#8217;s not what the headline says; it says <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stltoday.com\/stltoday\/news\/stories.nsf\/stlouiscitycounty\/story\/41BBABF8CD8281968625734C0079CE9F?OpenDocument\" target=\"_new\">Verizon agrees to pay utility tax<\/a>.  However, we know that&#8217;s the result; apparently, it began collecting the tax, under protest, on bills a year ago.<\/p>\n<p>But here&#8217;s the howler of the article:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Municipal officials contend the companies don&#8217;t have to make the customer pay.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I do think it is confusing,&#8221; said Tim Fischesser, executive director of the St. Louis County Municipal League. &#8220;We would prefer if the companies paid it.&#8221; <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Haw haw!  And you know what, municipal officials?  You don&#8217;t <i>have to<\/i> collect the tax money and blow on silly schemes, either.  <b>But you do.<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>That&#8217;s not what the headline says; it says Verizon agrees to pay utility tax. However, we know that&#8217;s the result; apparently, it began collecting the tax, under protest, on bills a year ago. But here&#8217;s the howler of the article: Municipal officials contend the companies don&#8217;t have to make the customer pay. &#8220;I do think [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3992","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3992","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3992"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3992\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17854,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3992\/revisions\/17854"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3992"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3992"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3992"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}