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2020-09-04 Economy
Hawaii forecasting grim economic forecast
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Posted by 746 2020-09-04 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11129 views ]  Top

#1 fwiw, Hawaii has its own Honolulu Rail Transit which started construction in 2011. It is to eventually serve 21 stations along a 20 mile track. It is currently estimated to cost about $9 billion. Because of cost overruns, the City has had to raise taxes. A big part of this was to come from taxes on hotel rooms, rental cars, etc. that are part of the tourist biz. As the tourist biz has dried up, so has the tax revenue.
Posted by lord garth 2020-09-04 00:44||   2020-09-04 00:44|| Front Page Top

#2 Pelosi is holding up relief for such businesses.
Posted by Vespasian Ebbereng3110 2020-09-04 00:54||   2020-09-04 00:54|| Front Page Top

#3 Hawaii shafted itself. It has always supported democrats and has been hostile to the US military.
Wait until about the last two weeks of October and they'll get a nice present from the Trump campaign right were the sun don't shine.
Posted by Thaith Elmeresing6163 2020-09-04 01:44||   2020-09-04 01:44|| Front Page Top

#4 No sh*t? You expected a state whose economy is based on tourism to do well during a pandemic?
Posted by g(r)omgoru 2020-09-04 05:25||   2020-09-04 05:25|| Front Page Top

#5 serve 21 stations along a 20 mile track

So, slightly less than a mile between stops. A ride from one end of the line to the other will be a lazy affair.
Posted by M. Murcek 2020-09-04 07:27||   2020-09-04 07:27|| Front Page Top

#6 Should be more spots available in the lineups at Pipeline unless the locals are hogging them all.
Posted by Blossom Spanter9668 2020-09-04 10:55||   2020-09-04 10:55|| Front Page Top

#7 Might save them from Chinese takeover...
Posted by rjschwarz 2020-09-04 11:15||   2020-09-04 11:15|| Front Page Top

#8 Hawaii is taking one for team DNC. The virus experience has been nominal; it probably rolled through early in Jan/Feb. The politics are Chicago on the pacific. I assume the authorities have been promised a Federal bailout if they play their part well and their side prevails in November.
Posted by Classical_Liberal 2020-09-04 12:47||   2020-09-04 12:47|| Front Page Top

#9  "You expected a state whose economy is based on tourism to do well during a pandemic"

Ketchum, Idaho's tourist economy is doing very well during the pandemic, just sayin'
Posted by 746 2020-09-04 15:56||   2020-09-04 15:56|| Front Page Top

#10 Idaho has tourist economy?
Posted by g(r)omgoru PB 2020-09-04 16:22||   2020-09-04 16:22|| Front Page Top

#11 Scenic Idaho - Come for the potato farming, stay for dinner!
Posted by SteveS 2020-09-04 17:33||   2020-09-04 17:33|| Front Page Top

#12 Sun Valley, Couer'd Alene, Sandpoint, Priest Lake, McCall, Stanley : all big tourist spots
Posted by 746 2020-09-04 17:40||   2020-09-04 17:40|| Front Page Top

#13 Sorry, 746. I wasn't making fun of Idaho.
Posted by g(r)omgoru 2020-09-04 17:59||   2020-09-04 17:59|| Front Page Top

#14 I understand. Come for a visit, it is a good place
Posted by 746 2020-09-04 18:22||   2020-09-04 18:22|| Front Page Top

#15 The Obama's hideaway. Multi million dollar property. Down payment by a wealthy woman. Obama's go thru money faster than they can steal it or what's given to them.
Posted by Dale 2020-09-04 18:33||   2020-09-04 18:33|| Front Page Top

#16 Spuds!
Posted by Clem 2020-09-04 18:52||   2020-09-04 18:52|| Front Page Top

#17 John Kerry lives at his wifes house here (Teresa Hientz) he's a douchebag.... havent seen O bumble but his daughters were here back in the "day"
Posted by 746 2020-09-04 19:06||   2020-09-04 19:06|| Front Page Top

#18 its always been i liberal hideaway (Sun Valley) since Averill Harriman found it in the 30's.
not the rest of the State!
Posted by 746 2020-09-04 19:08||   2020-09-04 19:08|| Front Page Top

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Posted by 746 2020-09-04 19:09||   2020-09-04 19:09|| Front Page Top

#20 If Big Island would tip over like Guam did, they'd be eligible for a whole boatload of FEMA money. Just saying...

As for Idaho, it has some pretty spectacular geology. I'd go there.
Posted by SteveS 2020-09-04 19:51||   2020-09-04 19:51|| Front Page Top

#21 Locals hate the tourism,deal with it.
Posted by bbrewer126 2020-09-04 20:47||   2020-09-04 20:47|| Front Page Top

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