So, what happens when there are few visitors and/or visitors spend less while there, including on tips, because of the extra taxes?
Legislators in Hawaii are implementing a hefty tax on tourism that they believe will help the state government take action against climate change.
According to the Associated Press and USA Today, Hawaii Gov. Josh Green signed a bill on Tuesday, May 27, that increased a tax on hotel room, vacation rentals and cruise ships to raise money to be used for issues such as eroding shorelines, wildfires and more.
Known as the first ever “Green Fee” in the country, Hawaii’s Act 96 will raise the state’s current transient accommodations tax (TAT) by 0.75%, making the taxes on nightly lodging rates 11%. The tax will go into effect on Jan. 1, 2026, according to a press release from Green’s office.
According to USA Today, travelers will have to pay a fee based on the nightly rate of their travel accommodations. For example, travelers staying in a hotel room that costs $300 per night will have to pay a $2.25 fee.
It’s not much, but, people do not like paying extra fees for bullshit.
“I mahalo the tourism industry for stepping up and collaborating on this initiative, which will preserve Hawai?i for kama??ina and visitors alike,” Governor Green explained. “The fee will restore and remediate our beaches and shorelines and harden infrastructure critical to the health and safety of all who call Hawai?i home, whether for a few days or a lifetime.”
So, if it is so important, than why not ban the use of fossil fuels? All those airports, heliports, boats, and vehicles? Why do the residents not pay? Why hit up the lifeblood of their economy?
Elsewhere, no matter what happens, it’s ‘climate change’
Floods kill at least 111 as northern Nigeria battles climate change, dry spells and heavy rainfall
Torrents of predawn rain unleashed flooding that killed at least 111 people in a market town where northern Nigerian farmers sell their wares to traders from the south, officials said Friday, predicting the death toll would grow.
The Nigerian Hydrological Services Agency did not immediately say how much rain fell after midnight Thursday in the town of Mokwa in the state of Niger more than 180 miles west of Abuja, the capital of Africa’s most populous nation.
Communities in northern Nigeria have been experiencing prolonged dry spells worsened by climate change and excessive rainfall that leads to severe flooding during the brief wet season.
In videos and photos on social media, floodwaters covered neighborhoods and homes were submerged, with their roofs barely visible above the brown colored waters. Waist-deep in water, residents tried to salvage what they could, or rescue others.
Got that? It’s your fault Someone Else’s Fault that carbon pollution is causing flooding and drought in a place that has historically had floods and droughts. Even desertification. Because of where Nigeria is located. There are other factors, such as deforestation, over-cultivation, over-grazing, cultivating marginal land, urbanization, and poor water management. Those are human caused, we do not need the boogeyman of “carbon pollution”. But, the cult will still do it. Floods and droughts go way back in their history throughout the Holocene.
Hawaii has always fucked the haoles.
Those Nigerians must be stupid. Why would you build a town that floods up to the roofs all the time? Oh, you say this is much worse than usual – more frequent and more severe.
How much CO2 does the typical Nigerian add to the atmosphere? If only there was some way to find that out… 0.58 ton/yr/Nigerian which is down 30% in the past 20 years. In the US, it’s 13.83 ton/yr/American (also down 30%). We understand that MAGAs don’t believe that CO2 absorbs infrared radiation, but if 95% of scientists are correct, it means the typical American is 24 times more responsible for global warming than a Nigerian. And there are 110 million MORE Americans. China is the worst overall, with each person responsible for 9.24 ton/yr (but UP 220%), but with 4.2 times more polluters than the US.
I’m surprised by teach’s criticisms. MAGAs are famous for their empathy and concern for the less fortunate.
New York City enacted Local Law 97 where buildings over 25,000 sq. feet have to reduce their carbon emissions by 30% over the ensuing years or face VERY hefty fines for not meeting the City’s stated carbon reduction schedule. This places an undue burden on condos, apartment buildings, commercial space, etc. Of course the law exempts all government buildings from the requirement. And of course, if everybody complied and met the reduced emissions, it would not make any bit of difference in global warming, pollution, or any other benefit. It is merely a scam to extract money for a bloated government who was funding projects such as putting up Bidens’s illegal invaders in $500 per night hotels.
So, Nigeria is battling ”climate change”, dry spells and heavy rainfall-all things that have happened and will happen. I would have never known…..
We are all guilty of all-or-none thinking (beliefs). “There have always been wildfires”. “There have always been hurricanes”. “Not all smokers get cancer, therefore cigarettes are OK”. “If we get rid of all atmospheric CO2 humans will die”.
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World wide, the frequency of extreme weather events, has increased which happens when their are increases in the amount of energy in the atmosphere.
Lol old people are often reluctant to admit that changes are happening. Change reminds them of their own personal changes few of which they view in a positive manner.
Are the increasing temps at least partly responsible for increasing hair loss? Is climate change slowing down your metabolic rate causing you to gain weight or be unable to lose weight despite exercise? Would the increase in unconscious fear be a possible reason that you are taking so many prescription meds? Are your politics killing you?