07-10-2017, 04:46 AM
Are Puna and Kau being discriminated against?
Short answer: yes.
Long answer: residents of other districts feel that they deserve more services because they're paying so much more property tax, so it's "unfair" that they have to "subsidize" the "poor" districts.
Allowing Puna and Ka'u some commercial-zoned real estate to broaden their tax base might help, but of course that runs counter to the "ruling elite", which gains much of its power by maintaining control over all the "useful" land.
Consider the helicopter issue: Puna is not unlike the mainland "flyover states".
It's long past time the residents of Puna/Ka'u simply recognized that the government is broken and started working around it.
Short answer: yes.
Long answer: residents of other districts feel that they deserve more services because they're paying so much more property tax, so it's "unfair" that they have to "subsidize" the "poor" districts.
Allowing Puna and Ka'u some commercial-zoned real estate to broaden their tax base might help, but of course that runs counter to the "ruling elite", which gains much of its power by maintaining control over all the "useful" land.
Consider the helicopter issue: Puna is not unlike the mainland "flyover states".
It's long past time the residents of Puna/Ka'u simply recognized that the government is broken and started working around it.