{"id":5850,"date":"2010-04-07T07:30:56","date_gmt":"2010-04-07T12:30:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=5850"},"modified":"2010-04-07T07:30:56","modified_gmt":"2010-04-07T12:30:56","slug":"tax-increase-shot-down-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2010\/04\/07\/tax-increase-shot-down-again\/","title":{"rendered":"Tax Increase Shot Down Again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Christian County library is already at work <a href=\"http:\/\/www.news-leader.com\/article\/20104070436\" target=\"_blank\">putting this on a ballot this fall<\/a>, no doubt.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>For the second time, and by a bigger margin, Christian County voters Tuesday rejected a library tax increase.<\/p>\n<p>The measure &#8212; which would have raised the library tax levy from 8.7 cents per $100 assessed valuation to 25 cents to help build three new buildings &#8212; was defeated by a 59-41 percent margin. A similar effort failed 52-48 percent in November<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>You think I am just being snarky with the comment at top?<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nWill there be a third attempt at a levy increase?<\/p>\n<p>That will be discussed in the coming weeks, officials said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I forget where I read it, but I think I thought I saw on the Internet (I think that&#8217;s a disclaimer asterisk, dagger, and double dagger) that the Christian County libraries budgeted $50,000 to lobby for this tax increase.  Just to be clear, that&#8217;s the salary of one to one and a half librarians.  And maybe they&#8217;ll spend that again.<\/p>\n<p>I think I&#8217;d like to get a ballot initiative going to make it illegal for government entities to spend money on lobbying for tax increases.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Christian County library is already at work putting this on a ballot this fall, no doubt. For the second time, and by a bigger margin, Christian County voters Tuesday rejected a library tax increase. The measure &#8212; which would have raised the library tax levy from 8.7 cents per $100 assessed valuation to 25 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5850","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-springfield"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5850","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=5850"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5850\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5854,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5850\/revisions\/5854"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5850"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5850"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5850"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}