06-15-2018, 03:22 AM
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Originally posted by leilanidude
The longer question is: did they collect enough property taxes to cover the cost of the lava emergency? Was it just more "tax farming" designed to attract FEMA bailout dollars?
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Over all this time - absolutely - multiple times over.
I hear this assertion many times, but do you have any numbers? I'm not making any assertions either pro or con - but I've never seen this claim made with actual numbers. I have seen similar claims that Kona property owners are paying a far larger share of the county tax burden than the Hilo/east side owners - again, without any clear, documented numbers on tax revenues generated vs tax revenues expended (per capita, per parcel, per acre, or whatever yardstick you care to use). Certainly those data exist....