GET hike meetings planned islandwide
Saturday, February 10, 2018 12:05 am
The county is hosting multiple community meetings over the next month on the possible half cent general excise tax increase the Hawaii County Council is considering.
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This would be the time and place if you have something to say about the tax increase.Let your council members know what you think, then see how they vote !
They have already raised property taxes 10% and gas tax 100% and given themselves huge raises. This 12.5% increase in GET is just going to happen and there will be more because frankly there will never be enough of other peoples money for these so called representatives of the people. The best response is to vote the clowns out, the only problem is that more than 50% of Hawaii county residents are receiving government benefits.
The GE tax ,if approved, would go from 4.16 to 4.66 .
In that case my math is a little off it is only a 12% increase in the tax. Of course this is nothing compared to the 20-30% raises that the Mayor and department heads just received. Who the heck gets a 30% raise!?
The way the vote will come down is that it will just barely pass like the gas tax and the property tax did. Example Kanuaha voted for the gas tax increase and against the property tax increase, they just trade votes so they all don’t look like they are taking it to the public at once.
This is getting to be like third world countries where government takes anything they want from the people. Time to start an up rising. They can be stopped.
STOP these tax increases….vote these wasteful corrupt political hacks out of office..stop increasing wages for gov workers..enough..