If Gov Green or anyone is serious about diversification of the economy they should consider the following:
1) Eliminate the income tax (Hawaii makes enough money off tourism, property tax, the excise tax, and other fees collected)
2) Bring back the ferry (While building bridges between the islands isn’t feasible connected via ferry is. This would open up lands under utilized for business, housing, & other uses)
3) Open Hawaii to the big banks (Local banks have strangled Hawaii’s growth by contributing to mismatched wage to cost of living, limited capital availability and growth)
4) Create a hydrogen ecosystem (Shift off imported energy, create molten salt batteries, reduce cost of living
5) Rezone (Expand developable land)
6) Elect me
Enforce the laws against illegal STR, causing the majority of problems. Shut’m down, fine them, both. Of course that requires “work”! But instead the government continues to raise taxes on legal STR businesses (requiring No work) through their licenses. It’s a brain dead cash cow to govt. coffers, making Hawaii visitors pay the 2nd. highest TAT in the country…for now. While Gov.Green blows off tourism for what? To compete with Cal.agriculture? Alaska fishing industry? Hollywood?
Gov. Green sounds more like a non business man everyday. Hawaii is what it is, no politician will change it.
State lotto, recreational marijuana, speeding up the building permit process, supporting the air bnb and other rental business are just a few that would directly help Locals ( not the airlines or resorts).
Good points. However speeding up building permits has proven impossible for the bureaucrats for nearly 2 decades. Infected by nepotism, graft and lack of determination.
Perhaps tax incentives or credits for profit and non-profit businesses that have a small corporate footprint that hire locals and promote minimal use of carbon resources, use recycled consumables and office structures (used shipping containers), with natural parking areas (rolled dirt or rock instead of asphalt or concrete), rainwater collection for building water, to offset plumbing provided water use, small wind turbines and solar roof panels to lower costs of electricity and “hamster wheel” concept cardio machines in the fitness center to also generate electricity, further off-setting costs. Last idea to lower business impact on the islands, resources and community; set up eight hours a week salary to be paid by doing volunteer labor.
You won’t need to worry about tourism. Prices are getting so high that there are many more comparable beach nations closer to contental us
If Gov Green or anyone is serious about diversification of the economy they should consider the following:
1) Eliminate the income tax (Hawaii makes enough money off tourism, property tax, the excise tax, and other fees collected)
2) Bring back the ferry (While building bridges between the islands isn’t feasible connected via ferry is. This would open up lands under utilized for business, housing, & other uses)
3) Open Hawaii to the big banks (Local banks have strangled Hawaii’s growth by contributing to mismatched wage to cost of living, limited capital availability and growth)
4) Create a hydrogen ecosystem (Shift off imported energy, create molten salt batteries, reduce cost of living
5) Rezone (Expand developable land)
6) Elect me
Enforce the laws against illegal STR, causing the majority of problems. Shut’m down, fine them, both. Of course that requires “work”! But instead the government continues to raise taxes on legal STR businesses (requiring No work) through their licenses. It’s a brain dead cash cow to govt. coffers, making Hawaii visitors pay the 2nd. highest TAT in the country…for now. While Gov.Green blows off tourism for what? To compete with Cal.agriculture? Alaska fishing industry? Hollywood?
Gov. Green sounds more like a non business man everyday. Hawaii is what it is, no politician will change it.
State lotto, recreational marijuana, speeding up the building permit process, supporting the air bnb and other rental business are just a few that would directly help Locals ( not the airlines or resorts).
Good points. However speeding up building permits has proven impossible for the bureaucrats for nearly 2 decades. Infected by nepotism, graft and lack of determination.
Perhaps tax incentives or credits for profit and non-profit businesses that have a small corporate footprint that hire locals and promote minimal use of carbon resources, use recycled consumables and office structures (used shipping containers), with natural parking areas (rolled dirt or rock instead of asphalt or concrete), rainwater collection for building water, to offset plumbing provided water use, small wind turbines and solar roof panels to lower costs of electricity and “hamster wheel” concept cardio machines in the fitness center to also generate electricity, further off-setting costs. Last idea to lower business impact on the islands, resources and community; set up eight hours a week salary to be paid by doing volunteer labor.