{"id":16344,"date":"2015-07-07T09:43:09","date_gmt":"2015-07-07T17:43:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/?p=16344"},"modified":"2015-07-07T09:54:15","modified_gmt":"2015-07-07T17:54:15","slug":"quote-of-the-day-647","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/quote-of-the-day-647\/","title":{"rendered":"Quote of the Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/atlantic_city_boat.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-8309\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/atlantic_city_boat-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"atlantic_city_boat\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/atlantic_city_boat-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/atlantic_city_boat-150x112.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/atlantic_city_boat.jpg 409w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>\u201cThe enormous amount of refunds that the city must pay back on successful tax appeals is simply unsustainable.\u00a0We continue to make cuts and run city government more efficiently, but it is the taxpayers who will suffer in the long run without tax stabilization.\u201d &#8212; <em><strong>Atlantic City<\/strong> Mayor <strong>Don Guardian <\/strong>(R),\u00a0on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2015-07-06\/atlantic-city-loses-borgata-63-million-property-tax-appeal\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"broken_link\">a $63 million tax-refund<\/a> awarded to <strong>Borgata<\/strong>. The shortfall will be passed on to the city&#8217;s citizenry<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThe enormous amount of refunds that the city must pay back on successful tax appeals is simply unsustainable.\u00a0We continue to make cuts and run city government more efficiently, but it is the taxpayers who will suffer in the long run &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/quote-of-the-day-647\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[23,60,14,31],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16344"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16344"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16344\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16346,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16344\/revisions\/16346"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16344"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16344"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16344"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}