Tax Hikes Pending in Hawaii Legislature Might Require Cigar Smokers to Take Out a Second Mortgage

Tuesday, April 05 2011

BY MALIA HILL | Hawaii Reporter

Boy, the Hawaii State Legislature sure can pack a lot of taxation into a short session. Sometimes, it seems as though the legislative session exists purely as an annual opportunity to raise existing taxes and create new ones. One blanches to consider what we’d be paying if they met for longer. Of course, it's hardly a surprise. With a growing budget shortfall and a heavily Democratic legislature that regards the concept of shrinking the size of government as a strange and unaccountable mainland fad, like the macarena, raising taxes is the obvious way to prolong the agony until it’s someone else's problem.

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