05-29-2015, 04:34 AM
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Originally posted by kalakoa
If they succeed, I'll have to seriously reconsider my retirement plans, which will include taking my income with me wherever I end up going -- I can only imagine how much worse this County will get as the tax base erodes.
You and a lot of other people - but that seems to be the desired outcome by the activists. Walter Ritte - with his Molokai Ranch vendetta - has almost single-handedly put more Molokai residents on the dole - and on a one-way trip off the island - than all the other island activists combined. "If we can collapse the island's economy, then no more (haole) people coming to muck up our paradise...."
If Hawaii's political faction doesn't figure out how to deal with the obstructionists in a way that allows for a sustainable economy, I don't see a very favorable outcome for anyone but the activists - and those wealthy enough to want only an occasional playground. And the latter may, eventually, become sufficiently dissillusioned with the "gouge the off-island property owners" to abandon Hawaii for more friendly playgrounds.