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Locally Grown Food
"We can simultaneously promote environmental health and economic profitability. Tax and credit policies modified will encourage a diverse and decentralized system of family farms rather than corporate concentration and absentee ownership. For example, commodity and price support programs could be restructured to allow farmers to realize the full benefits of the productivity gains made possible through alternative practices." - Ramon Kitaichi Madden
Our ag sector is wilting on the vine. Here's how to get it growing
by Rob Parsons - December 17, 2009
It's been distressing to witness the unraveling of once-viable agricultural operations over recent years and months. The old paradigm of large mono-crop plantations and export commodity crops is dying, but it still hasn't yielded to new models that favor local food security and sustainability. We spend about $4 billion annually on food imports (amounting to 85-90 percent of our total food consumption) in Hawaii, and yet the benefits of keeping even some of that money here continue to be ignored.
by Rob Parsons - December 17, 2009
It's been distressing to witness the unraveling of once-viable agricultural operations over recent years and months. The old paradigm of large mono-crop plantations and export commodity crops is dying, but it still hasn't yielded to new models that favor local food security and sustainability. We spend about $4 billion annually on food imports (amounting to 85-90 percent of our total food consumption) in Hawaii, and yet the benefits of keeping even some of that money here continue to be ignored.
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Home Rule for West Maui
What's happening on West Maui is happening all across Hawaii. It is critical that we send to Honolulu, representatives that represent no factions or special interests. Our district representatives should only answer to their conscience and to the people of the district they represent.
We DO want Bills that ARE being debated openly and fairly.
We DO want Bills that will LOWER taxes.
We DO want Bills that will HELP our healthcare.
We DO want bills that will SAVE jobs.
We DO NOT want bills that will run the State of Hawaii deeper into the kind of debt that is not in the interest of the people of Hawaii.
We DO NOT want billion dollar tax increase plans forced on the people of Hawaii.
The State of Hawaii demands a balanced budget and now our representatives want to raise taxes instead of cutting back. Make no mistake, the budget shortfall is not because of lack of money.
The problems we face now are in fact a direct result of out of control spending and mismanagement. I have no doubt that we can fix the budget without raising taxes. Then the only thing we will have to pay more of, is attention.
We DO want Bills that ARE being debated openly and fairly.
We DO want Bills that will LOWER taxes.
We DO want Bills that will HELP our healthcare.
We DO want bills that will SAVE jobs.
We DO NOT want bills that will run the State of Hawaii deeper into the kind of debt that is not in the interest of the people of Hawaii.
We DO NOT want billion dollar tax increase plans forced on the people of Hawaii.
The State of Hawaii demands a balanced budget and now our representatives want to raise taxes instead of cutting back. Make no mistake, the budget shortfall is not because of lack of money.
The problems we face now are in fact a direct result of out of control spending and mismanagement. I have no doubt that we can fix the budget without raising taxes. Then the only thing we will have to pay more of, is attention.
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Freedom & Liberty “The 2010 Hawaii Pork Report just scratches the surface of the amount of taxpayer dollars wasted by Hawaii’s state and local government bureaucracies,” said David Williams, Vice President for Policy...
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The Local Economy Maui's increase of 7.2 percent from February 2009 was the second consecutive monthly increase in visitors to the Valley Isle, one of the harder hit islands during the state's lengthy visitor industry...
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Public Safety Right now, leadership for phasing out harmful wastewater injection wells on Maui and for shifting to nonpolluting water treatment and reuse is coming from the local government, citizens,...
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Public Infrastructure The vast majority of the lawmakers believe -, that the way to stimulate the economy is to raise taxes and increase government spending and increase government bonded debt. Thus a series of construction...
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