08-30-2014, 03:02 AM
with the almost non existent income the local county gets its a miracle they can even fix one road a year
The problem is not "funding", it's a combination of "overhead" and "priorities". Check out the roads in Kona or Waimea.
Note also that the "paltry" 4.166% is not a "sales tax", it's an "excise tax" which has been applied multiple times along the way to the point of sale -- the equivalent "sales tax" would be somewhere in the 10-20% range depending how you calculate it.
The problem is not "funding", it's a combination of "overhead" and "priorities". Check out the roads in Kona or Waimea.
Note also that the "paltry" 4.166% is not a "sales tax", it's an "excise tax" which has been applied multiple times along the way to the point of sale -- the equivalent "sales tax" would be somewhere in the 10-20% range depending how you calculate it.