In the aggregate, the people of Hawaii had income of $34.6B in 2006. Government is the biggest employer in Hawaii. From us the government took enough revenue to pay $12B in wages, salaries and benefits to our bureaucrats. WOW! If we are going to shell out more than a third of our income to buy government "services", it might be nice if we could actually get something in return for our investment. Our roads and highways are a shambles, our schools are a national disgrace and our other infrasturcture constantly fails. It's pretty hard as a tax payer to figure out where all of this money is going.
As a sideline, it is interesting that this money is pretty heavily disbursed on Oahu which receives the Lion's share of $10B. The Big Island of Hawaii enjoys $756M in "services" from the government while Maui gets $578M and Kauai, $289M.
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