Why bother sending Hawai‘i taxpayers one dollar?As if financial times weren’t hard enough already with airline layoffs, gas at $5 a gallon by next week, food shortages and scarce water supplies drying up on the lawns of absentee rich people in Wailea, why the cavalcade running the state government would decide to embarrass themselves and Hawai‘i by issuing these useless one dollar checks is way beyond my perception. What a waste. What an insult. What a joke. Will they be hiring party clowns riding unicycles and blowing kazoos to deliver the checks wrapped up in animal balloons? Come on now, if you’re going to play a joke, you’ve got to follow through.
Why not keep the surplus and funnel it into the school system? That way, we can better educate our children so that when they reach voting age, they’ll make less ignorant decisions when it comes to electing government officials and hopefully... the costumes will be better and the jokes will actually be funny.
[Editor’s note: Due to the state’s budget surplus, and under Hawai‘i’s constitution, the Senate passed the $1 income tax credit bill.]