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Or feel the tropic sun on my face and feel the trade winds blow. Or to play and dance in the hawaiian rain that can soak you but you don't care because it warm.
@everyone, when was the last time you guys did what i said the last two post? It would be interesting what the response would be?
I really don't think government incentives to private businesses to lower food prices is a workable solution. For a dollar reduction in the price of milk, retailers will need at least a dollar from the government, probably more to cover extra costs to administer the program. And where will the government get the money? By raising taxes. And probably raise $1.20 in new taxes for every $1.00 they spend to lower the cost of milk by $1.00. And I don't see that as the role of government either.
If I had the ability to to one single thing that I think would help lower prices on everything and put more money in people's pockets it's thing: change the rules on trading oil back to the rules in place prior to George W's Presidency. Prior to his presidency, oil was considered a strategic national commodity and trading was restricted to only very large end users of the product. Early in his administration rules were changed to remove the end user restrictions. This allowed wealth traders and pension funds and mutual fund managers to begin trading in oil. The result has been drastically higher prices on crude oil. Which has drove up the price on all goods and services.
I think changing the rules back would dramatically lower oil costs and as a result, the cost of everything would drop.
Now there is a solution suggestion, I agree i think we need to go further and get back to before the trickle down economic model startted by reagon, Its just not working for these times.
I also suggested cutting tourism advertisement funding to pay for incentives, since the tourist industry has had the highest success ever recently so advertisement isn't needed as much.
Maybe we could just raise state income and GET taxes in Hawaii to get that price of milk down.
Why do that when that extra dollar is just fluf or extra profits? I also gave about 6 other suggestions and #1 had a few different ones besides taxes. Also Waikikiboy had a good suggestion.
What about taking away the GET on food and prescription drugs for the residents of Hawaii only? Has any state legislator there ever proposed a bill that would do that? Maybe they could make up the lost revenue with an increase in the hotel tax or something else that doesn't nail Hawaii residents.
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