$3Billion Dollar Deep Hole for Honolulu Rail Project
Channel: ThinkTech Hawaii
Date: 2017-07-18

In this special edition of Moving Hawaii Forward, Host Tim Apicella addresses the state legislature's upcoming special session to decide how to best fill up the $3Billion dollar deep hole for the Honolulu Rail project. Guest Randy Roth who  is a recently retired law professor at UH, estate attorney, and author. Mr. Roth has spent years of his time and resources to shine a light upon the mayors bold and broken promises of 10,000 new jobs for locals, or HARTs hyperbolic rail ridership projections of 116,000 trips per day, or the recent claims of rail stations will be desirable centers of affordable housing. Recently, Mr. Roth attended a City Council Committee meeting to testify and debate that the tax funding strategy of choice, the general excise tax is a regressive tax, is  a tax hardship on those who can least afford it-the poor and middle class of this island. Randy and Tim examine the tax alternatives the legislature will look at and HARTs ridership numbers.

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