{"id":20881,"date":"2010-07-22T16:41:07","date_gmt":"2010-07-22T16:41:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/local_paper_front_page_sales_tax_proposal_could_slam_south_carolina_residen\/"},"modified":"2010-07-22T16:41:07","modified_gmt":"2010-07-22T16:41:07","slug":"local_paper_front_page_sales_tax_proposal_could_slam_south_carolina_residen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=20881","title":{"rendered":"Local Paper front page: Sales tax proposal could slam South Carolina residents"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>South Carolina consumers would pay more for food, water, electricity and prescriptions in exchange for a lower overall sales tax rate under a tax revision proposal given preliminary approval Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>And the proposed sales tax increases don&#8217;t stop at necessities. The state&#8217;s Tax Realignment Commission recommends that the state for the first time charge sales taxes on digital purchases from online stores, such as iTunes and Amazon.com, and pay more to buy a car as part of a massive makeover of the way the state collects taxes.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.postandcourier.com\/news\/2010\/jul\/22\/taxing-ideas\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>South Carolina consumers would pay more for food, water, electricity and prescriptions in exchange for a lower overall sales tax rate under a tax revision proposal given preliminary approval Wednesday. And the proposed sales tax increases don&#8217;t stop at necessities.<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=20881\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40,54,149,151,619,587,596],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20881","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics-politics","category-south-carolina","category-economy","category-politics-in-general","category-state-government","category-taxes","category-the-credit-freeze-crisis-of-fall-2008the-recession-of-2007"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20881","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20881"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20881\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20881"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20881"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20881"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}