{"id":30060,"date":"2010-08-20T12:58:34","date_gmt":"2010-08-20T17:58:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?p=30060"},"modified":"2010-08-21T16:39:21","modified_gmt":"2010-08-21T21:39:21","slug":"proposed-tjc-tax-hike-debated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=30060","title":{"rendered":"Proposed TJC Tax Hike Debated"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?attachment_id=30061\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-30061\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2010\/08\/thumb_tjc-building-2-150x120.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"thumb_tjc-building-2\" width=\"150\" height=\"120\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-30061\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nTYLER &#8212; Heated debate Thursday as TJC held the second of two public hearings on raising the tax rate more than 33 percent.  One former student spoke up for it, saying, &#8220;I wanted a better opportunity.   I got my GED, I came to TJC.   I still support the tax increase for maintenance and infrasrtructure needs.&#8221;   Others, like George Stephenson, weren&#8217;t so supportive.  &#8220;Sometimes we lose sight of the fact that we can just rely on somebody else and take their money,&#8221; said Stephenson. &#8220;Well, some people call that stealing.&#8221;   As KETK explains, if the tax increase passes, it will go toward paying back $28 million taken out by the board last year for maintenance tax notes.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TYLER &#8212; Heated debate Thursday as TJC held the second of two public hearings on raising the tax rate more than 33 percent. One former student spoke up for it, saying, &#8220;I wanted a better opportunity. I got my GED, I came to TJC. I still support the tax increase for maintenance and infrasrtructure needs.&#8221; &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=30060\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Proposed TJC Tax Hike Debated<\/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-30060","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-07 04:45:52","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\/30060","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=30060"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30060\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30297,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30060\/revisions\/30297"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30060"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30060"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30060"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}