{"id":8492,"date":"2017-02-02T17:34:52","date_gmt":"2017-02-03T01:34:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spijue.wpengine.com\/news\/letter-real-solutions-are-needed\/"},"modified":"2017-02-02T17:34:52","modified_gmt":"2017-02-03T01:34:52","slug":"letter-real-solutions-are-needed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/opinion\/letter-real-solutions-are-needed\/","title":{"rendered":"Letter: Real solutions are needed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It is well known that our state of Alaska is in a fiscal crisis. Real solutions are needed.<\/p>\n<p>I agree with the position that the state of Alaska can not solely cut its way out of this crisis.<\/p>\n<p>This is a time for everyone to pull together and not a time for party politics. Our state needs to generate revenue and has no time to waste. This is an emergency and everyone who earns money in Alaska needs to help.<\/p>\n<p>There are many people who make their living from Alaska&rsquo;s resources, but are not Alaska residents. They should contribute along with us residents to solve Alaska&rsquo;s fiscal crisis.<\/p>\n<p>I believe that we, the people of the state of Alaska, need to (along with other problem-solving measures) implement the equitable measure of a state income tax.<\/p>\n<p>Respectfully,<\/p>\n<p>Mary Jane Tenney<\/p>\n<p>Juneau<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is well known that our state of Alaska is in a fiscal crisis. Real solutions are needed. I agree with the position that the state of Alaska can not solely cut its way out of this crisis. This is a time for everyone to pull together and not a time for party politics. Our [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":107,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_stopmodifiedupdate":false,"_modified_date":"","wds_primary_category":8,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-8492","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-opinion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8492","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/107"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8492"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8492\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8492"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8492"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8492"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=8492"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}