{"id":898,"date":"2012-05-05T19:59:52","date_gmt":"2012-05-05T23:59:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.citizennetmom.com\/?p=898"},"modified":"2012-05-05T19:59:52","modified_gmt":"2012-05-05T23:59:52","slug":"understanding-the-sales-tax-fight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.citizennetmom.com\/?p=898","title":{"rendered":"Understanding the Sales Tax Fight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It has become apparent to me (and others) in the last couple of weeks since <a href=\"http:\/\/www.citizennetmom.com\/?p=893\">my column<\/a> ran that many people &#8212; maybe most people &#8212; don&#8217;t really understand how the sales tax is divided between the state, local governments, and schools in Tennessee.<\/p>\n<p>Normally, that wouldn&#8217;t be a big deal. \u00c2\u00a0Right now though, in Oak Ridge Tennessee, it IS a big deal, because accusations are flying back and forth about whether a sales tax approved in 2004 is being used to pay debt service on the bonds for our new high school. \u00c2\u00a0It is, but it&#8217;s not quite that simple.<\/p>\n<p>Fortunately, an informed local citizen &#8212; Cathy Toth &#8212; has come up with a brief presentation that explains the situation very well, in a graphic format that&#8217;s easy to understand. \u00c2\u00a0Well, at least as easy as this one gets. \u00c2\u00a0Check it out here:\u00c2\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.citizennetmom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/What-Now-May-2012.pdf\">What Now May 2012<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It has become apparent to me (and others) in the last couple of weeks since my column ran that many people &#8212; maybe most people &#8212; don&#8217;t really understand how the sales tax is divided between the state, local governments, &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.citizennetmom.com\/?p=898\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-898","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-etc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.citizennetmom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/898","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.citizennetmom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.citizennetmom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.citizennetmom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.citizennetmom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=898"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.citizennetmom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/898\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":901,"href":"http:\/\/www.citizennetmom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/898\/revisions\/901"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.citizennetmom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=898"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.citizennetmom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=898"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.citizennetmom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=898"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}