05-28-2024, 02:38 AM
(This post was last modified: 05-28-2024, 02:59 AM by HereOnThePrimalEdge.)
an enterprising individual could move here from the mainland and simply go take pictures of it and sell them while making a goddamned good living off of it.
That could never happen. Nobody would ever attempt to start any kind of photography business in Puna, there are no buyers of art here, everyone knows that you would have to ply your trade at the resort shops on the west side. Or get into the wedding photography business, again only on the west side. It’s entirely, completely, absolutely impossible on the east side and you’d have to be a blind man to try such a thing in East Hawaii. And as a blind photographer it would make things even more difficult for you.
The reason Shipman has given for restricting access through their land is
The real reason is that they are a beneficiary, some would say a welfare recipient of the county tax code. They pay nearly nothing in taxes for oceanfront property, vacant land, and ag land. That allows them to sit only property for generations, unlike all the rest of us who pay a much higher tax rate, and even if we could afford to invest in large acreage for our children and grandchildren, we could never hold it that long at the rate we would be taxed. We’d have to rent out the properties or sell off some of it every year to pay the taxes so the county wouldn’t sell it at auction.
The only way one family can benefit in this way, a family whose members are simply born into it, is if all of the other residents in the surrounding area pay a greater share.
That could never happen. Nobody would ever attempt to start any kind of photography business in Puna, there are no buyers of art here, everyone knows that you would have to ply your trade at the resort shops on the west side. Or get into the wedding photography business, again only on the west side. It’s entirely, completely, absolutely impossible on the east side and you’d have to be a blind man to try such a thing in East Hawaii. And as a blind photographer it would make things even more difficult for you.
The reason Shipman has given for restricting access through their land is
The real reason is that they are a beneficiary, some would say a welfare recipient of the county tax code. They pay nearly nothing in taxes for oceanfront property, vacant land, and ag land. That allows them to sit only property for generations, unlike all the rest of us who pay a much higher tax rate, and even if we could afford to invest in large acreage for our children and grandchildren, we could never hold it that long at the rate we would be taxed. We’d have to rent out the properties or sell off some of it every year to pay the taxes so the county wouldn’t sell it at auction.
The only way one family can benefit in this way, a family whose members are simply born into it, is if all of the other residents in the surrounding area pay a greater share.