{"id":53553,"date":"2025-12-06T03:17:10","date_gmt":"2025-12-06T03:17:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/53553\/"},"modified":"2025-12-06T03:17:10","modified_gmt":"2025-12-06T03:17:10","slug":"northampton-county-passes-budget-with-no-property-tax-increase-for-8th-year-in-row-northampton-county","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/53553\/","title":{"rendered":"Northampton County passes budget with no property tax increase for 8th year in row | Northampton County"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>EASTON, Pa. &#8211; Northampton County Council approved a budget with no property tax increase at its Thursday night meeting.<\/p>\n<p>It is the eighth consecutive budget without an increase, according to a news release from the county.<\/p>\n<p>Records indicate that since at least 1961, Northampton County has never experienced an eight-year period without a tax increase, the county said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFrom the beginning, I promised to end the over-taxation of the people of Northampton County,\u201d said County Executive Lamont G. McClure.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEight straight years without a tax increase, and a tax cut that returned $25 million to our residents, shows that we kept that promise.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EASTON, Pa. &#8211; Northampton County Council approved a budget with no property tax increase at its Thursday night&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":53554,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[153,155,154,222,9363,434,18524,16988],"class_list":{"0":"post-53553","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-bethlehem","8":"tag-bethlehem","9":"tag-bethlehem-headlines","10":"tag-bethlehem-news","11":"tag-budget","12":"tag-county-council","13":"tag-northampton-county","14":"tag-property-tax","15":"tag-tax-increase"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53553","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=53553"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53553\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/53554"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53553"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53553"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53553"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}