04-19-2016, 04:27 AM
This mayor somehow still has supporters who love to go on about all he has done for "keiki, kipuna, and ohana." The fact that the GET is the most regressive of all taxes and falls most heavily on lower income people and families is conveniently forgotten when it comes time to feed the construction companies and unions who financed Kenoi's campaigns. Not only is GET regressive, it is partly hidden because unlike sales tax, it is applied at all levels of transactions. As kalakoa correctly points out, the bonded indebtedness spending spree has the potential to crimp the county's finances, particularly if a disaster were to require massive infrastructure repairs. (Federal disaster relief never pays for everything, btw.) Kenoi can't leave office without one last go at dipping into our pockets.