{"id":1467,"date":"2011-10-12T11:40:20","date_gmt":"2011-10-12T15:40:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/?p=1467"},"modified":"2011-10-12T11:40:20","modified_gmt":"2011-10-12T15:40:20","slug":"letter-kennett-taxes-too-high","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/?p=1467","title":{"rendered":"Letter: Kennett taxes too high"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>To The Editor:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/?attachment_id=1469\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1469\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-1469\" style=\"margin: 4px;\" title=\"Letters11\" src=\"http:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/Letters11.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"140\" \/><\/a>Kennett Township residents, our taxes are too high!\u00a0 Our Township Supervisors, led by Allan Falcoff, claim our taxes are the 4th lowest of the surrounding Townships. Don&#8217;t be fooled. The Supervisors conveniently do not include the .5% Earned Income Tax (EIT), which dwarfs our Township property taxes, in their figures.<\/p>\n<p>The Township\u2019s 2011 budget projects that property taxes will bring in $320,600 \u2013 but the earned income tax will bring in an additional\u00a0 $1,600,000!\u00a0 The State of Pennsylvania\u2019s website correctly shows on http:\/\/munstatspa.dced.state.pa.us\/\u00a0\u00a0 that Kennett Township\u2019s total taxes per resident are 35% higher than nearby Townships.\u00a0 Kennett Township has run a sizable surplus every year since they exercised their option to take half of the 1% EIT when the school district implemented it in 1998.\u00a0 Receiving .5% of the collective (very high) income of Kennett Township residents has accumulated over $11,400,000 sitting in Township accounts.\u00a0 Clearly our Township taxes could and should be reduced!\u00a0 What\u2019s worse, the Supervisors refuse to say WHY they won\u2019t reduce our taxes!<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, the Kennett Township Supervisors are using the Township\u2019s website and even residents\u2019 water bills to crow about our \u201clow taxes\u201d and their expert management of our tax dollars.\u00a0 The Kennett Township Supervisors are in fact mismanaging our tax dollars &#8212; spending tens of thousands of dollars on legal fees fighting Right to Know requests from citizens who have a lot of questions about all this &#8212; while swimming in a river of money flowing in from the half percent tax on our earned income.<\/p>\n<p>Scudder Stevens, candidate for Kennett Township Supervisor in the November 8 election, has made this tax issue a centerpiece of his campaign.\u00a0 It is time to vote for Scudder Stevens for Kennett Township Supervisor and reduce your property taxes!<\/p>\n<p><strong>Jeff Yetter<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Kennett Township<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To The Editor: Kennett Township residents, our taxes are too high!\u00a0 Our Township Supervisors, led by Allan Falcoff, claim our taxes are the 4th lowest of the surrounding Townships. Don&#8217;t be fooled. The Supervisors conveniently do not include the .5% Earned Income Tax (EIT), which dwarfs our Township property taxes, in their figures. The Township\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1469,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[242],"tags":[55,263,135],"class_list":["post-1467","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-letters-to-the-editor","tag-kennett","tag-letters","tag-taxes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1467","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1467"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1467\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1469"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1467"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1467"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1467"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}