{"id":120289,"date":"2017-04-24T14:48:10","date_gmt":"2017-04-24T19:48:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=120289"},"modified":"2017-04-24T14:48:20","modified_gmt":"2017-04-24T19:48:20","slug":"nd-legislature-approved-tax-trade-off","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=120289","title":{"rendered":"ND legislature approves tax trade off"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-13725\" src=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/NDstatecapital-300x202.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"202\" srcset=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/NDstatecapital-300x202.png 300w, http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/NDstatecapital-259x175.png 259w, http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/NDstatecapital.png 445w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) \u2014 The North Dakota Legislature has passed a measure for the state to take over social services costs for the 53 counties under a two-year program that would eliminate counties\u2019 ability to tax for those services.<\/p>\n<p>In exchange, the Legislature is ending a so-called tax relief fund that was used to give homeowners a 12 percent buydown of property tax rates. Lawmakers say the state can no longer afford to do that.<\/p>\n<p>The fund is expected to have $300 million when the current two-year budget period ends on June 30. The bill would use about $140 million from the fund to help balance the state budget, while the remainder would be applied to social services program costs.<\/p>\n<p>The state would pay counties based on a formula that factors expenses and caseload.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) \u2014 The North Dakota Legislature has passed a measure for the state to take over social services costs for the 53 counties under a two-year program that would eliminate counties\u2019 ability to tax for those services. In exchange, the Legislature is ending a so-called tax relief fund [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":67441,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-120289","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-state"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120289","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=120289"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120289\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":120291,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120289\/revisions\/120291"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/67441"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=120289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=120289"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=120289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}