Posted on 07/24/2018 11:15:18 AM PDT by simpson96
(snip)Just how expensive is Hawaii?
According to the Hawaii Public Housing Authority, a single person can qualify for housing assistance on Oahu while earning as much as $54,850 annually. A family of four only becomes too rich for housing assistance at $78,300. What would classify as middle-class America as a whole (median income around $56,000), is poor in Hawaii.
(snip)As of 2016, the average home price in Hawaii was $905,000, far “ahead” of second-placed Massachusetts, at $580,000. In Honolulu, the average home price is $1.2 million.
According to CNBC, Hawaii has the second-highest tax burden in the country, just behind New York. The total burden is 11.57 percent, including a 2.2 percent property tax, a 2.85 percent individual tax and a 6.52 total sales and excise tax.
Daily expenses are higher, too. Hawaii has the most expensive gasoline at $4.17 per gallon, which includes the fourth highest gas tax in the country (49.1 cents.) Electricity rates are more than double any other state (37.2 cents per kilowatt-hour) and a gallon of milk is between $7 and $8 at most stores.
(snip) Hawaii is entirely controlled by Democrats and has been for years. All statewide elected officials and all of the state’s federal lawmakers are Democrats. The 51-member state House has five Republicans and the 25-member state Senate is the only one in the country with no Republicans.
According to CNBC’s latest “best states to do business,” Hawaii was 47th and the state consistently ranks near the bottom in new business startups.
Homelessness is an urgent statewide problem. Other states pay to send their homeless populations to Hawaii. Honolulu repealed anti-vagrancy laws and the homeless population is everywhere(snip)
From a fiscal perspective, Hawaii is a ticking time bomb and a federal bailout request (like Puerto Rico) is easy to imagine.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtontimes.com ...
I'm glad I've seen it but have never returned...and will never return.Florida and the Caribbean are nicer,closer and cheaper.
And given that I don't like macadamia nuts and that most pineapples seem to come from the Philippines the state won't see another penny of our money.
Is that you Mr. Zuckerberg?)
It’s actually “Kill a Haole Day” observed on the last day of school.
Random violence against whites is officially sanctioned since Hawaii has a race law elevating “purebred” Hawaiians above other groups in terms of property and government hiring. Historically, pure Hawaiians were mostly bred out of existence by race mixing well before WWII.
I learned all this from a Hawaiian first sergeant I knew. He had a copy of “Pidgin To Da Max” in his office. Dah bruddahs like to pick fights & the last thing a haole hears before his lights get punched out is, “Want beef?”
The real reason they like warm climates is so that when they get drunk or stoned and fall over they won’t freeze to death.
Is that not affordable for Hawaii?
Maybe I shouldn’t let the secret out though. Lol
Deserted beaches in Hawaii can be great places to get robbed too.
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I forgot that I have no clue what the gun laws are there regarding my ability to defend myself with a firearm.
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