{"id":27257,"date":"2010-08-11T03:05:42","date_gmt":"2010-08-11T08:05:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?p=27257"},"modified":"2010-08-12T02:43:00","modified_gmt":"2010-08-12T07:43:00","slug":"proposed-taxhike-draws-opposition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=27257","title":{"rendered":"Proposed Tax Hike Draws Opposition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?attachment_id=27258\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-27258\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2010\/08\/smith-county-seal-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"smith county seal\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-27258\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nTYLER &#8212; Smith County residents have spoken out against a proposed tax increase. Smith County Commissioners are considering a four cent tax hike to help offset a proposed budget $7 million deficit. At a public hearing Tuesday the room was packed as residents voiced their concern about a tax increase. KETK-TV reports the average home in Smith County is valued at $135,000.  The proposed tax increase would equal $55 a year for that homeowner. <\/p>\n<p>The public has another chance to address the commissioners\u2019 court on the proposed tax hike. Another public hearing will be held on August 17th at 9:30am in the courthouse annex. The commissioners will meet again next Tuesday with a budget workshop on the agenda.    <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TYLER &#8212; Smith County residents have spoken out against a proposed tax increase. Smith County Commissioners are considering a four cent tax hike to help offset a proposed budget $7 million deficit. At a public hearing Tuesday the room was packed as residents voiced their concern about a tax increase. KETK-TV reports the average home &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=27257\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Proposed Tax Hike Draws Opposition<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27257","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-06 21:32:19","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27257","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27257"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27257\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27609,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27257\/revisions\/27609"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}