Ka Wai Ola - Office of Hawaiian Affairs, Volume 31, Number 10, 1 October 2014 — LALANNE, JON A. LIBERTARIAN [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

LALANNE, JON A. LIBERTARIAN

Q1. This is my platform. First of all, l'm more on the diversity sideofthe eguaI tionthanlamon the eaalitarian

side. Every race j has a right to protect its heritage. j I think giving more land back to j the Hawaiian people is long overj due. However in order to pay the j debts,oneneedscapital.Lowering j taxes would draw more wealth to j the islands. As of late, the current j administrationshavebeenchasing j it away. In order to feed the ehain j we need to produce. Agriculture j was a mainstay for Hawaiian j culture and families. Therefore j it needs to eome back and be j competitive with the international j marketplace. Loosening the noose j a few, and I only mean a few, j restrictions plus lowering taxes j woulddotwothings.One:itwould j draw business back to Hawai'i. 2: j This would discourage businesses j from avoiding taxes thus bringing

in more revenue to the state. Q2. Considering Hawai'i's debt crisis, I would hate to see this disappear. Hawai'i needs Capital to achieve this. By lowering the state tax, this will in turn attract wealth to the state, whieh it has been lacking for decades. With the new green technology out there today, Hawai'i could be energy independent and at the forefront of green production and technology. I'm all for this. For with rising energy costs, building will heeome guite cumbersome. Hawai'i has to produce in order to survive. We need to take a close look at the real problem. Regulations are a good thing, but when Hawai'i is regulated to the unreasonable point of no everywhere we turn, our GDP will continue to decrease. This will not help building progress. We have the technology to be environmentally friendly. LET's use it. Let government step aside so wealth and prosperity may onee again flourish throughout the ehain.

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