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Political buffoonery report on imaginary subject

Mr. Yamachika’s column concerning the saga of the Hawaii state auditor being forced to audit something that is unauditable is not only hilarious, but painful.

The report (and the law that mandated it) is an almost textbook example of political buffoonery. The report suggested helpfully (I paraphrase), We request that in future the Legislature please refrain from requesting we read your minds? It is reasonably apparent you never knew what was on them in the first place.

A lot of people would end a letter like this decrying the waste of money such a report represents. That’s not my point here. Once the visitors return, money’s not a big deal. We have a tax regime which spews out so much cash that we can write reports on imaginary subjects to the Legislature’s heart’s content and never even miss the dollars.

But we’ll never have enough money to buy our way out of being stupid.

Mark Lee

Wailuku

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