Do you agree with a court’s rejection of the Residential A property tax category?
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A. Yes; unfair/ unconstitutional (432 Votes)
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B. No; city should appeal (272 Votes)
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C. What's that? (145 Votes)
This is not a scientific poll — results reflect only the opinions of those voting.
11 responses to “Do you agree with a court’s rejection of the Residential A property tax category?”
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And how this nation allowed the so-called “progressive” income tax is beyond me, what ever happened to equal protection under the law? Or did marxian ideals trump the 14th amendment and property rights? Time to abolish the 16th amendment!
Doesn’t matter if I agree or disagree. If it’s unconstitutional that’s it. I’m more disappointed in the Mayor and city council that they can’t get this stuff right in the first place.
What do you expect. TheRail is in need of money and that’s not speaking for other projects needing immediate attention. Need I say pot holes
I agree with you. If the city loses, they need to FIRE that City Corporation Counsel Donna Leong, and Gary Kurokawa, the city’s deputy director of budget and finance, and every other lawyer on the City payroll that worked on this Residential A tax category. The City (and State also) need to get things right before enacting laws and ordnances.
They are all rogue. Not only should they be fired but also disbarred and thrown in prison for embezzlement of funds. The courts and feds should force claw-backs to return all fraudulent taxes collected to the rightful owners.
The small half percent general excise tax surcharge which is barely felt should be extended for rail instead or increasing real property taxes.
I agree!
That’s easy for you t o say. You are one of Kirooky boys mainland boiler-room choo-choo cheerleaders that posts pro-rail statements in every rail related article. Since you live on the mainland it’s easy for you to tell all of us that having $500 withheld for every $100k you earn is nothing. In addition, we get double taxed after we go and make any purchase in Oahu so essentially the GET tax milks every resident out of $1,000 for every $100k in earnings and expenditures. I could have spent $1,000 annually on gas to drive myself all over the island instead I and 95% of Oahu residents throw a few thousand dollars down the toilet every year to fund a choo-choo we’ll never ride.
UkuBS has no cred.
Rail Fail shill low life
$1000 out of $100,000 is 1%, not the 1/2% rail tax. You are a liar.
Learn to read thoroughly so you can absorb the entire comment before falsely calling me a liar. I specifically said, DOUBLE taxed when you make a purchase so your real GET surcharge tax is 1%. The minute you purchase anything you get hit by the 0.5% GET surcharge tax that’s not including the 0.5% your employer paid up to Kirooky boy on your gross income. Similar to social Security where your employer pays half of SS taxes and you pay the other half so the real SS tax is double but it’s not obvious to the employee since the employer is on the hook to pay it.
Let me put it to you this way so you can easily comprehend this…
1. Employer pays you a gross salary of $100k so your employer pays 0.5% ($500) to Kirooky boy’s thugs.
2. You take your $100k and buy two $50k cars one for you and one for a family member and you now pay an additional 0.5% ($500) to Kirooky boy’s thugs.
You essentially get double taxed so your real GET surcharge tax is at 1% ($1,000) for every $100k in gross transactions.