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Home defense- best is a shotgun. Semi auto 8 round if you can swing it.
All around self defense- AR15 no doubt.
Best would be both and a flashlight mount on the shotgun
Wait, what?!No short term rentals and the lowest property taxes in the nation.
On the local level there are now no legal consequences for intentionally doing anything illegal anywhere now, unless you're just a run of the mill working stiff who happens to actually pay taxes.Tell them not to worry about it, or if they really need money, sell ice. There are no legal consequences for either one, apparently. At least from Kahaluu to Waialua.
Maybe the solution is to stop voting for whatever party is running things.Hike up property taxes on non-primary residences? It blows my mind that a state with such expensive real estate has shitty infrastructure and education.
Same story, pretty much every city in the USA right now. If it's not that way, it's going in that direction.My neighborhood as well as the entire north shore are chock full of Airbnb’s, operating openly. They’ve gone nowhere.
Call the enforcement hotline, here’s what they will tell you: “sorry, we’re understaffed.”
It's nice to think you can do whatever you want with your property, but with human nature being what it is, that's a bad idea. Enough people will fuck things up for everybody without qualms that we have to have legal and societal restrictions. Even if it's your own home, if you use it for a business you have to comform to the rules. Otherwise you get anarchy.I’m torn on it.
I think it’s extreme gov over reach for them to tell you what you can do with you’re own home.
they tried this couple years ago with a proposed constitutional amendment to fund education but the realtor assoc scare tactics won outHike up property taxes on non-primary residences? It blows my mind that a state with such expensive real estate has shitty infrastructure and education.
they need to fix the system before wasting anymore money on itI think we should have a lottery for funding education
I bet the situation is the same in HI:I think we should have a lottery for funding education
The state off-loaded pension payments to the districts to help balance Sacramento's books. They did the same to local governemts / PERS, I believe. Oddly, many districts are currently swimming in money due to Covid relief dough and increased tax revenues.I bet the situation is the same in HI:
California’s K-12 spending exceeds $20,000 per pupil
“It’s not enough. We’re still 41st in the nation in per pupil funding. Something needs to change. We need to have an honest conversation about how we fund our schools at a state and local level,” – California Governor Gavin Newsom, State of the State Address, February 12, 2020 It should come as...californiapolicycenter.org
Out here, the pension obligations are skyrocketing and school districts are basically becoming pension fund managers, stripping down everything to keep up the payments to CalSTRS. Local school districts in my area are having layoffs.
That's not true here:The state off-loaded pension payments to the districts to help balance Sacramento's books. They did the same to local governemts / PERS, I believe. Oddly, many districts are currently swimming in money due to Covid relief dough and increased tax revenues.
Warren Buffet was asked this weekend why Berkshire Hathaway doesn't start paying a dividend rather than re-investing its profits as it has always done. He said that would be unfair to the shareholders who mostly bought Berkshire because they were savers and liked how Berkshire re-invested and that people who wanted dividends bought stock in other companies.
Which is like zoning. You take what seems like a big risk at the time, buy a house with a steep mortgage payment in an area that you like because of how its zoned, who lives there, just the whole nature of the place - that's why you buy - that's why you agree to dedicate 28% or more of your earnings to it for a long period of time. For someone to come along and radically change that without even a vote on it is wrong. If my neighbor started renting out a room in their single family house I would prosecute that relentlessly. They didn't buy a rooming house so they should have no expectation of having one. And zoning - building codes - all of it came from what went wrong in the past and protects people who have an investment in the neighborhood so that they can continue to enjoy what they bought.
clearly flat for the summer... otherwise, what hawaiian would be posting up here instead of surfing, yes?How about that swell hey?
Just finished this book.The book is "Sharks in the Time of Saviors" by Kawai Strong Washburn. It is his debut novel. I found it brilliant.
Isn't it great?Just finished this book.
It is brilliant. I couldn't put it down and I thought it captured the experience of Hawaii perfectly. It felt like the book was talking about my family members.