State tax rebate? Not now and not with stolen money
The state collected so much tax money in 2005 and 2006 that the Hawaii Constitution requires a tax rebate. After the manini rebates of $1 per taxpayer in 1994 and 2002, this time the governor is talking about real money: $100 for low- and middle-income taxpayers. The wealthy -- those with household incomes over $100,000 -- will get $25.
Is it, as one commentator recently said, a situation where Hawaii's government leaders have ignored the concerns of real people, consistently demanding more than taxpayers should be forced to pay? Have they taken money unnecessarily from good, hard-working folks without good reason? Is this rebate overdue?
Consider the following:
» More than $45 million of the rebate represents money withheld from substitute and part-time teachers whom the Department of Education underpaid from 1997-2005 in violation of state law. Our rebate is their back wages. Should we take stolen money?
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