10-13-2024, 02:31 PM
Those multi-million $ homes In Kona/Waikoloa that are second homes for the wealthy, paid for their own infrastructure in the private, gated subdivisions they are in. As Obie noted, they don't have children in the schools here, yet pay huge amounts of property tax to support infrastructure that they don't really use. The construction and maintenance of those homes provides many well paying jobs for those folks that do live here. Keep squeezing them for more money and they will stop investing here and that will take even more jobs away.