Posted on 06/16/2025 7:34:10 AM PDT by davikkm
The ink is dry. Hawaii has officially become the first state in the nation to impose a climate tax. It’s called the Green Fee. The name sounds harmless. The impact is anything but.
Senate Bill 1396 is now law. It tacks on a 0.75% increase to the Transient Accommodations Tax. That means every hotel stay, every short-term rental, every cruise ship docking in the islands will now carry a new surcharge. The state expects this to rake in $100 million annually.
This isn’t a symbolic gesture. It’s a full-scale revenue engine. The money will be funneled into climate resilience projects. Think wildfire prevention, coral reef restoration, flood mitigation, and invasive species removal. The state says it’s about protecting the land. But the math tells a different story.
(Excerpt) Read more at citizenwatchreport.com ...
What’s Al Gore’s cut?
When I visit Michigan every Summer, I have to pay more for my out of State fishing license...
“ The money will be distributed through grants.”
Excellent. I plan to study the climate change effects on near shore billfish. Where do I send my grant request?
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They have “kamaaina rates” for more than just golf.
“Time to put an entrance tax on every Hawaiin resident entering the other 49.”
and an extra Tariff for every product entering Hawaii.
Soon, Oprah and Obama will have their wish. No one will be in Hawaii, except them and their super rich cronies.
Everywhere in America has hotel and motel taxes, car rental taxes,and others, paid mainly by tourists. The concept of a tax paid by visitors is nothing new.
Is the tax enough to dissuade people from going there?
A tax on sunlight.
It will do the obvious thing, namely quash travel and decrease revenue.
Predicting right now that Hawaii will then react by doubling the tax. They can’t be wrong; only reality is broken, right?
Hungering for OTHER-PEOPLE’S-MONEY! Screw Hawaii and its substantially racist population. There are better places to vacation.
isn’t there a 60 year old photo where a couple recreated it at the same rock by the ocean... kind of debunks those rising sea levels.
To your point, Montana...
https://economistwritingeveryday.com/2025/05/21/montanas-new-property-tax-system/
At the moment Wyoming isn’t doing it.
Get Data Republican, DOGE genius, to look into whatever PAC this money gets funneled to. My bet is some of it will end up in Hirono’s accounts...
“The money will be funneled into”... the pockets of bureaucrats, cronies, politically-connected NGO grifters, etc.
Somehow I am sure there is no requirement for an annual audit and disclosure of where the money went and what was achieved.
One thing I can guaranty is that 100% of the proceeds from this tax will be paid to consultants and others connected to Hawaiian Democrat politicians.
Even if it fails, the Leftists in states like CA, IL, NY and other, hard-Left states will still do this.
Hee hee...I plan to study the effects of climate change on sea shells, with tourists wearing beef tallow sun balm, along Wailea Beach.
We went to Hawaii for the 75th anniversary of the Pearl Harbor attack. And then went on a cruise with the family. BUT ... I did not like it. I suppose I was naive, expecting beauty everywhere, but Honolulu where we spent several days was like New York City right on the beach. I didn’t think we’d ever go back - ...
But a grandson has moved there, so we will probably go next year.
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