10-08-2015, 08:47 AM
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Originally posted by Chunkster
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Originally posted by Rene Siracusa
[br You complain about the tax dollars to be spent opening up Apa'a Street, but show no awareness that Ka'ohe residents have been paying since Oct. 25, 2014. That's a whole year. And we pay taxes too.
Yes, you pay taxes like the rest of us. The difference is that you get the Feds and the county to spend some of it on you occasionally. Having said that, I think it is appropriate for that road to be repaired as described. It just irks me to hear some of the more fortunate among the Puna taxpayers whine when someone points out the inequities.
I am sure all the people who live there would have been happy to forgo the entire lava odyssey. Calling them "the more fortunate among the Puna taxpayers" and accusing them of whining seems a little unfair. The people who are complaining about the road being fixed are real the whiners here.