{"id":96135,"date":"2025-01-02T05:00:30","date_gmt":"2025-01-02T12:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/uswps06.newsmemory.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/2025\/01\/02\/there-is-no-simple-solution-to-property-taxes\/?destination=northern-plains-independent"},"modified":"2025-01-02T05:02:40","modified_gmt":"2027-11-18T05:02:40","slug":"there-is-no-simple-solution-to-property-taxes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/2025\/01\/02\/there-is-no-simple-solution-to-property-taxes\/?destination=northern-plains-independent","title":{"rendered":"There Is No Simple Solution To Property Taxes"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In recent opinion pieces,  Evan Barrett, a longtime Democratic consultant, and Mike Jopek, a former Democratic  legislator, have repeatedly  provided their \u201csimple solution\u201d to our high property  taxes in Montana: just lower the residential property  tax rate to 0.76 percent. If it truly was that simple, both Democrat and Republican  legislators would have already done it. The reason it hasn\u2019t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[],"news-destination":[13],"news-source":[12],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96135"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=96135"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96135\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":96147,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96135\/revisions\/96147"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=96135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=96135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=96135"},{"taxonomy":"news-destination","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-destination?post=96135"},{"taxonomy":"news-source","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-source?post=96135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}