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by Grassroot Institute of Hawaii | Oct 24, 2022 | Jones Act
Peter Zeihan, American geopolitical analyst and author, devotes one of his latest video posts to the 1920 shipping law known as the Jones Act, which he claims has cost Americans trillions of dollars in lost economic opportunities over the course of the last century....
by Grassroot Institute of Hawaii | Oct 24, 2022 | Healthcare, In the News, Taxes & Fees
The campaign to exempt medical services from the state general excise tax took to the airwaves this past Sunday with an appearance by Keli‘i Akina, president and CEO of the Grassroot Institute of Hawaii, on the H. Hawaii Media radio network. Host Johnny Miro asked...
by Keli'i Akina, Ph.D. | Oct 24, 2022 | Cost of Living, Housing, Land Use & Zoning, President's Corner, Regulation
Usually, when we say that “government” is responsible for the high price of housing in Hawaii, we are talking about bureaucracy: the rules, regulations, permits and barriers in general that make it difficult, time-consuming and expensive to build homes. But there...
