02-03-2018, 07:28 AM
It is my position that we have a should tax those who can afford it the most, hotels and resorts, billion dollar corporations, and high valued 2nd homes, and leave the working class alone.
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I have a real problem with that statement.
These groups/companies are already highly taxed and if you raise taxes on them more, the costs of their goods/services will have to go up, making it even less affordable for that working class.
If you tax those second homes, etc. too much, people will stop building them. If they stop building them, who is it that suffers? The working class! Make Hawaiian vacations unafordable due to the high taxes and you will end up hurting the very people you are trying to help.
The best way to help the average working class person in Hawaii is to reduce the size/cost of the county government.
Start with a hiring freeze, then force 3-5% a year reductions in every department. No exceptions.
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I have a real problem with that statement.
These groups/companies are already highly taxed and if you raise taxes on them more, the costs of their goods/services will have to go up, making it even less affordable for that working class.
If you tax those second homes, etc. too much, people will stop building them. If they stop building them, who is it that suffers? The working class! Make Hawaiian vacations unafordable due to the high taxes and you will end up hurting the very people you are trying to help.
The best way to help the average working class person in Hawaii is to reduce the size/cost of the county government.
Start with a hiring freeze, then force 3-5% a year reductions in every department. No exceptions.