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Originally posted by jrw
They take money right out of your pocket..
I believe you are wrong..
From:
https://www.capitol.hawaii.gov/session20...07-19_.PDF
"As background, the Hawaii Admission Act and the State Constitution established the Public Land Trust for the betterment of the conditions of native Hawaiians and for the general public. The Public Land Trust comprises over one million acres of former government and crown land of the Kingdom of Hawaii, seized as part of the Kingdom’s unlawful overthrow. The Hawaii Constitution entrusts OHA with the responsibility to manage and administer Public Land Trust funds set aside for Native Hawaiians, which state law reaffirms as 20% of all funds from the Trust.
After decades of disagreement as to how to determine this 20%, in 2006, OHA and the state agreed to an interim annual amount of $15.1 million, to be transferred to OHA as a reflection of Native Hawaiians’ Public Land Trust share, “until further action is taken by the legislature.” As part of this agreement, the state was to compile annual reports on all receipts generated from the Public Land Trust, for the purpose of revisiting the interim annual amount with better data."
I could paste more but that sums it up and if you want to delve into the details follow the link I post above.
Now, with that in mind, please tell me how my money, my tax dollars, have anything to do with the money allocated to OHA. I am curious.. are you saying that money, revenue from land stolen, shouldn't be given to the Hawaiians? That the federal government who set this in motion in the first place was wrong? That the state of Hawaii is wrong? If so I suspect your panties will really get twisted in one big time knot when we get down to working out giving them the land back. Which, like it or not, is the eventual outcome of all this.
I should add: I don't know about all the ins and outs of OHA's funding, and there may be other state sourced revenue streams that are based in taxed derived funds. If so, that is an issue that I believe could be remedied if the state would get real about the 20% and autonomy. If everyone faced the issue with an eye towards settling the matter once and for all, then, I hope all the pilikiea could be addressed, settled. Until then, the humbug is just going to go through cycles, wax and wane, with each new "event" that gives cause for the Hawaiians to express their grievances.