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| Sunday, February 5, 2017 |
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Don’t mug taxpayers to pay for Hawaii’s high cost of living
By Grassroot Institute @ 10:01 AM :: 5280 Views
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...give everybody a pay raise--by cutting taxes....
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| Sunday, February 5, 2017 |
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276 Candidates Register for Honolulu Neighborhood Board
By News Release @ 4:48 AM :: 5667 Views
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Candidate recruitment has begun and will end on February 17, 2017....
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| Sunday, February 5, 2017 |
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Unfunded Pensions – Tip of the Iceberg?
By Tom Yamachika @ 4:01 AM :: 8401 Views
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Is a 7% return on investment sustainable into the future? Another organization that studied the issue said that a more realistic rate of return would be the “risk-free” rate, which they calculated at 2.344%....
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| Sunday, February 5, 2017 |
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SB938: End the State Rail Tax Skim
By Grassroot Institute @ 3:37 AM :: 6450 Views
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the Department of Taxation has been allowed to keep a full 10% of the rail surcharge for the costs of administering it, despite the fact that the law directs DOTAX to calculate how much is required for its management of the surcharge, then return the remainder to the rail project....
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| Saturday, February 4, 2017 |
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SB1056: Seawater Air Conditioning to Become New High Tech Tax Credit Scam?
By Andrew Walden @ 2:33 PM :: 10222 Views
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...the sea water air conditioning business can use the funds to pay management highly inflated salaries, purchase other business opportunities, build sea water air conditioning plants outside of the State, or for any other purpose....
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| Saturday, February 4, 2017 |
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Hawaii Union Membership #2 in USA–21.7%
By News Release @ 12:33 PM :: 6097 Views
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New York continued to have the highest union membership rate (23.6 percent), Hawaii and Alaska are tied for second at 21.7 percent each....
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| Saturday, February 4, 2017 |
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Hawaii: Trannies Drive Push to Legalize Prostitution
By Selected News Articles @ 11:42 AM :: 8013 Views
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Trannies used by the left as a driver of far-reaching social re-ordering....
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| Saturday, February 4, 2017 |
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Hawaii Family Forum Legislative Week in Review
By Hawaii Family Forum @ 10:01 AM :: 8746 Views
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Hawaii is trying to copy California, but look how that turned out! ... tons of lawsuits ....
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| Saturday, February 4, 2017 |
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UHERO: ‘Discriminatory’ HSTA Property Tax Plan hits Renters Hardest
By UHERO @ 12:22 AM :: 9490 Views
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...an owner of an investment property in Honolulu worth less than half a million dollars can expect to see his (her) combined City and State property tax bill double....
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| Friday, February 3, 2017 |
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Audit: Rep Kaniela Ing Does His Part to Hide OHA Corruption
By News Release @ 8:51 PM :: 9045 Views
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“Within days of my call for an independent audit of the Office of Hawaiian Affairs, Rep. Kaniela Ing has announced plans to use the legislature to target me...."
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| Friday, February 3, 2017 |
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Hawaii public employee benefits rise 5 times faster than private sector
By Grassroot Institute @ 5:22 PM :: 7828 Views
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Salaries and benefits of Hawaii government workers have increased by 26 percent in the past decade....
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| Friday, February 3, 2017 |
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HB1595: Urine Free Zones
By Rep Gene Ward @ 5:14 PM :: 7676 Views
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"A person can be lying in their feces in a public stairwell and have an absolute constitutional right to do so, but the citizens walking over or through this public health hazard have no rights.”
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| Friday, February 3, 2017 |
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Choke or Head Fake? Ige Doesn’t Appoint Campaign Chair to ICA
By News Release @ 5:11 PM :: 8049 Views
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Gov. David Ige today announced the appointment of First Circuit chief judge Derrick H.M. Chan to the Intermediate Court of Appeals....
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| Friday, February 3, 2017 |
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Hawaii GE Tax Bites into 99.21% of personal income
By Tax Foundation @ 4:52 PM :: 6368 Views
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Hawaii has the broadest sales tax in the United States, but it taxes many products multiple times and, by one estimate, ultimately taxes 99.21 percent of the state’s personal income....
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| Friday, February 3, 2017 |
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Basing decisions on evidence, not politics
By Keli'i Akina PhD @ 4:42 PM :: 4749 Views
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Considering how often we are promised "effective" policy or political plans that "work", there's surprisingly little effort spent measuring that effectiveness....
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| Friday, February 3, 2017 |
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Deadline to Apply for State Ethics and Campaign Spending Commissions Extended
By News Release @ 4:34 PM :: 4445 Views
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The new application deadline is March 4, 2017....
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| Friday, February 3, 2017 |
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UHERO: The Exorbitant Cost of Collecting Honolulu’s Rail Surcharge Tax
By UHERO @ 1:43 AM :: 6536 Views
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Hawaii’s State Government has unnecessarily profited from the Honolulu rail project....
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| Friday, February 3, 2017 |
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Mixture of Pro and Anti-Gun Bills Introduced in the Hawaii Legislature
By News Release @ 12:01 AM :: 5581 Views
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Wednesday, January 25, marked the cutoff date for bill introduction in the Hawaii legislature....
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| Thursday, February 2, 2017 |
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Hawaii Did Not Issue Any Gun-Carry Permits to Private Citizens in 2016
By Selected News Articles @ 11:30 PM :: 6668 Views
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Documents submitted by county police to the state's Department of the Attorney General show that every application by a private citizen for a concealed-carry permit was denied in 2016....
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