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BRUCE ASATO / BASATO@STARADVERTISER.COM
Members of the Hawaii Senate and House are meeting to iron out their differences over the state’s $13.5 billion budget for 2017.
Members of the Hawaii Senate and House are meeting to iron out their differences over the state’s $13.5 billion budget for 2017.
They’re deciding how much money to put toward affordable housing, hospitals, services to help homeless people and many other areas.
A committee of representatives from the House and Senate are meeting Tuesday afternoon.
The budget bill most recently passed by the state Senate includes $13.5 billion in spending for 2017 and $12.9 billion for 2016. That includes money from the state’s general fund, bonds and all other means of financing.
Please forgive me. I looked at the photo accompanying this article and all I could think of was chunks of raw meat being thrown down into the pit to be devoured by the alphas with the scraps left over to those who don’t really matter. I know that my thoughts may not be fair and I apologize for them.
Deciding how much of our (taxpayer’s) money to take and spend.
The Senate should just allocate the full $13.5 billion to RAIL and just be done with it in one fell swoop.
I say we reduce rail funding, put the completion date and an indeterminate date in the fure, and, in the meantime, put express buses on the guideway until passenger fare collections pay for the trains.
The rail is a city project not a state project. The only thing the state does is skim 10 percent of the GET collected.
Without rail, our children and grandchildren have no future.
Without education, our children have no future. What does rail have to do with it?
I don’t know why a picture of the House in Session is shown. The bill is in CONFERENCE.
OMG hang on to your wallet.