02-21-2012, 01:12 PM
Bottom line, "nonresident owners" equals no vote/no representation. No different from asking voters to approve any other fees or conditions on nonresidents. A no-brainer for the anti-haole mentallity. So many other states have tried this on such things as nonresident hunt/fish licenses and tags as a means to boost revenues, and people get po'd, recreate elsewhere, and revenues go down. And this from a state that lives and breaths on tourism. Hawaii is it's own worst enemy.