Fiscal Truth Goes Through Three Stages (Talking Tax)
Channel: ThinkTech Hawaii
Date: 2022-12-03

Ridicule, Violent Opposition, Acceptance.  The hosts for this show are Jay Fidell and Tom Yamachika.  

The German philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer wrote that all truth goes through three stages:  1st it is ridiculed; 2nd it is violently opposed; 3rd it is accepted as self-evident.

This is what has been happening in our state government.  At the Office of Hawaiian Affairs (OHA), the possibility of financial irregularities was pooh-poohed at first; when the CliftonLarsonAllen report came out, OHA management and leadership were out to shoot the messenger; and now that the Plante Moran report corroborated many of the findings, the truth is accepted as self-evident.

Now we need to look at the Dept. of Land and Natural Resources.  The Auditor's report came out and was dismissed out of hand.  Then a House committee ostensibly formed to follow up on the matter came out to attack the Auditor.  We are waiting for the third stage now.

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