04-02-2013, 05:55 AM
If this were actually about "clean water", seems like the additional fees (penalties) should be levied against those who are actually polluting -- except DoH somehow doesn't have enough "funding" to figure out who those polluters are.
So yes, it does seem like a "money/power grab", especially as the new fees remain "unspecified", despite promises that these fees will be "reasonable". The money will be spent elsewhere, just like the "County road tax" (that doesn't fund your "private" road) and the Federal gas tax (that pays for "interstate" highways on Oahu).
The bigger irony is that these fees will only be levied against people who are known to have "individual wastewater systems" (total is 58989 per article), and I would bet there are two or three for every system in the "official" count.
So yes, it does seem like a "money/power grab", especially as the new fees remain "unspecified", despite promises that these fees will be "reasonable". The money will be spent elsewhere, just like the "County road tax" (that doesn't fund your "private" road) and the Federal gas tax (that pays for "interstate" highways on Oahu).
The bigger irony is that these fees will only be levied against people who are known to have "individual wastewater systems" (total is 58989 per article), and I would bet there are two or three for every system in the "official" count.