Eminent domain will do the trick
Eminent domain will do the trick
Kauai County could and should simply take some of Zuckerberg’s property by eminent domain for public beach access. A narrow strip for pedestrian and bicycle access should suffice.
Michael Wells, Moloaa
Tax Returns should be disclosed
House Bill 712, still alive in the Legislature would require candidates for president, vice-president, governor, lieutenant governor, and mayor to disclose their federal income tax returns in order to be listed on a general election ballot. It would prohibit electors from voting for president and vice-president who have not disclosed their tax returns.
This measure is intended to provide transparency and integrity in elections. Shouldn’t we have transparency and integrity in our U.S. senators and representatives? Shouldn’t we have transparency and integrity in our state senators and representatives?
If our state Legislature had true integrity, they would start with themselves. All political candidates are required to file financial disclosure statements identifying potential conflicts of interest in their deliberations. It’s a small step to disclose federal tax returns. If it’s good for the goose, it’s good for the gander.
While we’re at it, the U.S. presidency has three requirements, one of which is being a “natural born citizen.” We still haven’t seen the last president’s birth certificate, his proof as “natural born citizen.”
Michael Curtis, Koloa
“We still haven’t seen the last president’s birth certificate . . .”
Knock knock . . . anybody home? Maybe you were asleep back in 2011 when the State of Hawaii released President Obama’s “Certificate of Live Birth.” It was all over the news. Even Fox carried it.
Oh . . . darn . . . forgive me. I sometimes forget that conspiracy theorists need substantially more than irrefutable proof to dissuade them from their brain-addled theories.
OMG Michael Curtis!
You were doing OK until you revealed yourself as a conspiracy theory “birther”.
What do you think? That Obama kept his secret and favored Kenya in his presidential duties?
You should be concerned about Trump who is favoring lily-white-only rich guys in everything he does.
Get a life, and a mind.
” We still haven’t seen the last president’s birth certificate, his proof as ‘natural born citizen.’ ”
Give it up Mike. It doesn’t matter where Obama was born because his mother was a US citizen.
RG DeSoto
@Michael Curtis,
While I completely agree with tax returns being made public (especially from a President that’s filed bankruptcy numerous times and is now handling billions of our dollars), you need to get up to speed with your last comment. Obama’s birth certificate was shown (including the long form certificate), and yes he was born right here in Hawai’i. Do you seriously think a man like Trump would back down on his 5 million dollar offer in 2012 (which he increased to 50 million) IF this birth certificate wasn’t real? Heck no, he’d still be relentlessly babbling about it on Twitter, and frivolously spending our money investigating.
Washington Post 9/16/2016:
“Trump said he’d been convinced of Obama’s birthplace at last. At an event at his hotel in downtown Washington, Trump gave a brief statement, affirming that President Obama had been born in the U.S.”
Here’s a good site for you to catch up…
https://www.factcheck.org/2011/04/indeed-born-in-the-u-s-a/
Michael, Mr Obama and I have similar Certificates of Live Birth. Mine’s from the Territory of Hawaii and his was issued by the State of Hawaii. Does this mean I wasn’t born here? That everyone born in Hawaii wasn’t born in Hawaii?
People still talking about Obama’s birther conspiracy ?? They walk among us even on Kauai… amazing
Thanks Michael for the letter, but there are a few things left to point out. As far as tax returns, all tax returns are not created equal. For instance, the tax returns for almost all “Politicians” are very simple because most politicians know squat about business and have not been successful at it. They make all their money in Politics which is not what the Founding Fathers envisioned! That’s why they become politicians! Obama’s tax returns, for instance, would have been a few simple pages long because he never accomplished anything. President Trump’s tax returns are tens of thousands of pages long and involve hundreds of corporations etc. Any idiot knows that if the left leaning dolts got a hold of complicated returns they would be able to find something to whine about and spin in the misguided direction of hate. President Trump has hundreds of accountants in 20 different countries, nearly every major US City and beyond who were hired to work on the mountain of taxable vehicles he owns. Did one of them make a mistake 5 years ago? Would the dolts spin, accuse and instigate unending legal action on every little point of contention? Yep! These are evil people! Tax return disclosure has always been up to the citizen paying them. It should remain that way. We do know that President Trump has done nothing to cheat the tax system already since he’s been under audit every year for the past decade. Believe me, if the Obama corrupted IRS, under his unfortunate Presidency, couldn’t find anything wrong with our President’s returns after yearly audits, there is nothing wrong!
Many politicians have business and professional backgrounds. Many were attorneys in large firms. Lawyer’s tax returns are simple? So your point is that because Trump’s tax return has a few extra pages (maybe, we don’t really know, do we?) then he should be exempt from providing his return? That’s some argument. You wouldn’t have lasted long as a lawyer. The only reason Trump hasn’t produced his returns, like former Presidents, is that he has something to hide. Period.
@ Gordon Oswald:
Washington Post March 17, 2019: “In 787 days, President Trump has made 9,179 false or misleading claims”
Yet you, and many others, blindly assume (without any proof) that “President Trump has done nothing to cheat the tax system”. “Any idiot” knows he can’t be trusted. I think we should rename you > Gullible Gordon. LOL
Mr Oswald…so sorry you drank the kool-aid!
President Trump has been Audited for the Past 19 Years by the IRS! If anything were Amiss,he would pay a Fine!
why doesn’t the county just do the eminent domain thingy on obama’s?
Obama missed it. Some thought he was from Kenya, after he played for Punahou high school, Honolulu, basketball team in 1979. Still for sports.