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Hawaii Advises Against “Visitor-Only” Fees + May Be Illegal

Hawaii’s UHERO has just come out swinging as it advises “against a fee” that targets only tourists.

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30 thoughts on “Hawaii Advises Against “Visitor-Only” Fees + May Be Illegal”

  1. Hawaii will always be home to me. My burial plot is in Honolulu so because I now live on the mainland everytime I return to the islands I will now have to pay a tourist fee?

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  2. I’m a retired lawyer of 45 years. I’ve always believed that many of the things that Hawaii proposes to do is a violation of the Privileges and Immunities Clause of the Constitution. I wonder if the leaders ever run this stuff by a good lawyer before Yacking about it.

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  3. We are so over-taxed, over fee’s, over the made-up charges that impacts locals and tourists alike. Hawaii makes up all kinds of fees and added charges? And like we all know, the monies that were intended to fix or upkeep or protect, doesn’t seem to be making a dent in anything? And so, you know, as a local, when you rent a car or book a neighbor island hotel, there are no breaks from all these added charges, you pay the same as the tourist! Now you have restaurants adding made up fees also! It’s insane! We are so expensive even the locals are going to have to leave their homes for a more affordable place to live, because it isn’t Hawaii that’s for sure. I think the people that are in charge of Tourism should step down, they are off course!

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  4. This is the other reason not to charge any fee to only visitors. It is the same as the talk of a visitor-only parking fee on Maui. We don’t need another reason to create/perpetuate/exacerbate the us vs. them atmosphere. Even if we only pay a nominal amount, $30/year or something, we should pay, too.

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  5. This whole ‘green’ environmental official concern seems insincere when HI remains 35 years behind in basic home waste recycling. Also as a lifelong HI resident, excluding the related traffic, I appreciate the visitors. They bring a dynamism and energy to the islands that I find invigorating. Id also love to see a study comparing the negative environmental impact of residents vs visitors. Guaranteed the residents with their car dumping habitual litterbug lifestyle has an equal if not more damaging impact. And this is without mentioning the Military impact!

    And this is coming from a 1st language pidgin speaking local resident thats lived worked on all open islands excluding Lanai with plenty Kanaka nephews nieces.

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  6. This is just another way to funnel money through the government to their political special interest groups. CA has horrible roads, high homelessness, high crime, bottom 10th in education out of all the states, more fires than ever before, always in a drought, and much more and there are taxes, grants and fees claiming to go directly towards these issues “would raise millions to help combat ”…yet it’s become increasingly worse in the last 5 years, and there is zero transparency on the money collected and used. Don’t fall for it Hawaii, locals can barely afford anything now!

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    1. Legalize gambling in HI and let’s start building casinos! Then all of our kama’aina will get their gambling fix on island (instead of flying to Vegas) and contribute more to the local economy!

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  7. Call it a Green fee, excise tax, sales tax, sunshine tax, whatever, it’s still another tax on the people who keep Hawaii functioning. State and county governments have done nothing to earn the right to another tax dollar to nowhere.

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