04-27-2016, 09:25 AM
About those bills PaulW.
Tourists are now out numbering residents here in hawaii by an 8 to 1 margin, while also using up to 8 times more of the islands resources like water, electricity, gas, and food,jmo.
Shouldn't tourist start paying more of the taxes required to maintain the public roads, beaches, and parks, than the current residents?
Why are our vehicle registration prices doubling this year when its the tourists amount of vehicles on our roads that have doubled lately?
Why are vacation rentals and B&B not being taxed, while the few residents property taxes increase?
Why aren't the resorts, grocery stores, gas stations, police traffic tickets, restaurants and bars offering or showing the few residents great local or kama'aina prices yet?
Its Not like those type of offered discounts would hurt the states overall multi-billion dollar tourism industry, or that there is a better time than now to give back to the people of aloha who make the industry possible,jmo.
P.S. Its not that i dont like those things you mentioned paulw, only how they are done, managed, or who profits from them.
Tourists are now out numbering residents here in hawaii by an 8 to 1 margin, while also using up to 8 times more of the islands resources like water, electricity, gas, and food,jmo.
Shouldn't tourist start paying more of the taxes required to maintain the public roads, beaches, and parks, than the current residents?
Why are our vehicle registration prices doubling this year when its the tourists amount of vehicles on our roads that have doubled lately?
Why are vacation rentals and B&B not being taxed, while the few residents property taxes increase?
Why aren't the resorts, grocery stores, gas stations, police traffic tickets, restaurants and bars offering or showing the few residents great local or kama'aina prices yet?
Its Not like those type of offered discounts would hurt the states overall multi-billion dollar tourism industry, or that there is a better time than now to give back to the people of aloha who make the industry possible,jmo.
P.S. Its not that i dont like those things you mentioned paulw, only how they are done, managed, or who profits from them.