08-01-2018, 07:42 AM
lack of business tax revenue and the lawsuits currently being formulated against the County. We'll all pay for it in the end, not them, so why worry?
Yes.
* We've lost 700 homes and families who were contributing taxes
* We've lost papaya farms, fruit, and orchid farms that were contributing taxes
* We've lost residents and workers who shopped at the stores and restaurants in Pahoa
* Soon, we may start losing buinesses
That will be a substantial amount of County tax revenue, gone. Which as ironyak noted, will easily (for the County) be replaced with higher taxes on the rest of us.
What it won't do is replace the jobs lost when businesses close down, and farms remain unable to grow a product for market, so again, the County's path of least resistance will most likely be to hire more workers. How you say? Why you ask, as there are less residents and businesses to "serve?"
(Here it comes)
Micro-zones. Lava micro-zones.
Instead of Puna divided into Lava Zone 1, 2, and 3, the County will create an entire new classification system, For example:
Lava Zone 1-A, 1-B, 1-C, etc etc
Panels will be created, studies funded, maps drawn, and workers hired to manage the new apparatus which will oversee building permits, County construction, and a complex system of hazard pay for County workers entering Zone 1-A through 1-X for maintenance, signage, policing, etc.
All of this will, we'll be told, benefit us, the taxpayers and residents. How you might ask (again)? Home builders will clearly understand the precise risk involved when building in certain micro-zones as the permit and inspection processes will require byzantine application packets and lengthy periods of review in order to provide a greater veneer of safety (as well as additional people to handle the mounting paperwork and on-site inspections. Perhaps even specialized electrical systems and roofing materials able to withstand future SO2 events, for cuz-es now in the trades because they couldn't get a coveted County position.
Harry? Are you listening? When you decide you're in need of a Director for the newly created Department of Lava Micro-Zone Administration call me, I'm available.
“Generalized intelligence and mental alertness are the most powerful enemies of dictatorship and at the same time the basic conditions of effective democracy.” - Aldous Huxley
Yes.
* We've lost 700 homes and families who were contributing taxes
* We've lost papaya farms, fruit, and orchid farms that were contributing taxes
* We've lost residents and workers who shopped at the stores and restaurants in Pahoa
* Soon, we may start losing buinesses
That will be a substantial amount of County tax revenue, gone. Which as ironyak noted, will easily (for the County) be replaced with higher taxes on the rest of us.
What it won't do is replace the jobs lost when businesses close down, and farms remain unable to grow a product for market, so again, the County's path of least resistance will most likely be to hire more workers. How you say? Why you ask, as there are less residents and businesses to "serve?"
(Here it comes)
Micro-zones. Lava micro-zones.
Instead of Puna divided into Lava Zone 1, 2, and 3, the County will create an entire new classification system, For example:
Lava Zone 1-A, 1-B, 1-C, etc etc
Panels will be created, studies funded, maps drawn, and workers hired to manage the new apparatus which will oversee building permits, County construction, and a complex system of hazard pay for County workers entering Zone 1-A through 1-X for maintenance, signage, policing, etc.
All of this will, we'll be told, benefit us, the taxpayers and residents. How you might ask (again)? Home builders will clearly understand the precise risk involved when building in certain micro-zones as the permit and inspection processes will require byzantine application packets and lengthy periods of review in order to provide a greater veneer of safety (as well as additional people to handle the mounting paperwork and on-site inspections. Perhaps even specialized electrical systems and roofing materials able to withstand future SO2 events, for cuz-es now in the trades because they couldn't get a coveted County position.
Harry? Are you listening? When you decide you're in need of a Director for the newly created Department of Lava Micro-Zone Administration call me, I'm available.
“Generalized intelligence and mental alertness are the most powerful enemies of dictatorship and at the same time the basic conditions of effective democracy.” - Aldous Huxley
"I'm at that stage in life where I stay out of discussions. Even if you say 1+1=5, you're right - have fun." - Keanu Reeves