05-25-2016, 06:46 AM
If all we do is try to hold every project hostage for whatever we can squeeze out of them, there will be no projects and no jobs and everyone will be relying on welfare.
Exactly -- but it's not an "if", this is standard operating procedure. Look no further than the building code revisions, no project is too small to avoid the squeeze.
Of course, this isn't a "problem", because taxes can always be raised to cover the additional welfare costs..
how Honolulu is un-affordable for the middle class, right?
Not just the middle class -- anyone notice how that homeless village proposed for Kona works out to over $500/sf? Who can afford that kind of construction cost? Oh, right: us taxpayers.
Exactly -- but it's not an "if", this is standard operating procedure. Look no further than the building code revisions, no project is too small to avoid the squeeze.
Of course, this isn't a "problem", because taxes can always be raised to cover the additional welfare costs..
how Honolulu is un-affordable for the middle class, right?
Not just the middle class -- anyone notice how that homeless village proposed for Kona works out to over $500/sf? Who can afford that kind of construction cost? Oh, right: us taxpayers.