there is gonna be NOTHING left

[Guest]

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Originally posted by PaulW

Hawaii has the lowest unemployment in the country and your average joe drives around in a monstrous gas guzzler. If taxes can't be raised now, then when?
As for "one-party government", was I just dreaming when we had a Republican governor a few years back?

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That was then, and this is now. Ca used to have two party rule too, no longer. A balance is preferable.

[HereOnThePrimalEdge]

You cannot buy small cars anymore

I must be seeing things whenever I drive on Hwy 130 or Hwy 11.

We're not considering anything, but all options are on the table. - President Donald J. Trump 1/24/19

[leilanidude]

Hawaii has the lowest unemployment in the country and your average joe drives around in a monstrous gas guzzler. If taxes can't be raised now, then when?
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The "average joe" doesn't. You must not get out much? Have you not seen the large numbers of 20+ year old vehicles on the roads here? Those would be the poor folks that will be hit hardest by this tax increase as it raises the price of food.

[terracore]

"State reg fee $40.00
State reg fee EM $5.00
County reg fee $12.00
Vehicle disposal $12.00
Emblem $.50
County wt tax $41.00
State wt tx $57.40
COH- beautification $1.00
State wt tax penalty $8.00
County wt tax pen $8.00
Volcano Nat park $25.00

Total $209.90 "

We decided to opt out 50% by selling the second car. Somehow, the icing on the cake was having to stand in line for the privilege of giving them fifty cents to get an emblem that we already paid for, that they never sent us, after we had already paid an additional $6.66 fee to do the transaction online months before, to avoid standing in line in the first place.

It's like the bureaucracy deliberately taunts us.

[Guest]

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Originally posted by BillyB

Monstrous gas guzzlers are about all that is available. You cannot buy small cars anymore, Toyota RAV 4 use to be a small SUV over the years it has become as big as a Buick.

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Really?

2019 Rav4 2.5L 4 Cyl 26-35 mpg, 3370 Lb,

https://www.toyota.com/rav4/features/mpg/4430/4440/4477

The 2015 model had mileage estimate of 23-30 mpg, so mileage improved curb wt of 3435 Lb. so weight has been reduced.


Perhaps you're thinking of the Land Cruiser

2019 Land Cruiser 5.7L V8, 13-18 mpg, 5815 Lb

https://www.toyota.com/landcruiser/features/mpg/6156

[Guest]

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Originally posted by leilanidude

Hawaii has the lowest unemployment in the country and your average joe drives around in a monstrous gas guzzler. If taxes can't be raised now, then when?
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The "average joe" doesn't. You must not get out much? Have you not seen the large numbers of 20+ year old vehicles on the roads here? Those would be the poor folks that will be hit hardest by this tax increase as it raises the price of food.

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10-4!

[PaulW]

Strange, I drive my regular non gas guzzling car on unpaved roads all the time. Sure, some people are poor, that’s why I said average joe.
They could raise the amount of food stamps to compensate the really struggling.

[leilanidude]

They could raise the amount of food stamps to compensate the really struggling.
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Because $330 per person is not enough in Hawaii?

[Guest]

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Originally posted by PaulW

They could raise the amount of food stamps to compensate the really struggling.

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OR, they could end food stamps and require people to stand on their own two feet rather than lay on the backs of others. The ultimate win-win scenario.

[Tink]

And just where do you think the money for food stamps comes from? Taxes!!! There ain’t nothin’ for free, especially from the gummit”!!

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