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I guess the Hawai'i State Senate is not concerned about jobs for the working class any longer, now that we got all of these billionaires to tax.
A bill the Senate passed manages to include an income tax hike of 11 to 16 percent for individual filers making over $200,000 a year, or households making $300,000 or more a year. State workers earning less than $200,000 are safe.
Also being considered by the Legislature are a capital gains and corporate income tax hike, a conveyance tax hike and a "temporary" repeal of more than two dozen exemptions to the general excise tax.
Aloha and mahalo to what's left of small businesses that operate as S-corporations. Goodbye to jobs for the people who want to work.
More nonsense raising the income tax rate 45 percent for seven years. These funds will simply be wasted on the rail and other union/government boondoggles.
There is a reason public school education in Hawaii is ranked as one of the worst states in the nation: Keep people dumb and dependent.
If state government wants to perpetuate plantation mentality and turn us completely into a welfare state, then this is how you achieve it.
Taxes are used to keep the poor in a zero-sum balance. How can anyone have hope, much less dignity and self-confidence, when the system controls your housing and financial security?
Joey Brunt-Zhuo
Wailuku