{"id":5052,"date":"2025-04-28T23:18:10","date_gmt":"2025-04-29T06:18:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/?p=5052"},"modified":"2025-05-29T13:20:11","modified_gmt":"2025-05-29T20:20:11","slug":"hawaii-establishes-new-tourist-tax-for-climate-slush-fund","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/2025\/04\/28\/hawaii-establishes-new-tourist-tax-for-climate-slush-fund\/","title":{"rendered":"Hawaii establishes new tourist tax for climate slush fund"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-us\/news\/us\/hawaii-will-raise-visitor-taxes-to-tackle-climate-change\/ar-AA1DOdJl?ocid=winp2fptaskbar&amp;cvid=978551701cba4ceaa893b446ba848b57&amp;ei=32\">Hawaii will raise visitor taxes to tackle climate change<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>&#8220;They estimate the tax increases would bring in between $85 million and $100 million a year to be dedicated to \u201cmitigation and adaptation to address the climate emergency.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>Officially they do not know what they are going to spend the money on! Which is why this is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.investopedia.com\/terms\/s\/slushfund.asp\">a slush fund<\/a>, financed by people who can&#8217;t vote in Hawaii, to squander money on most anything the politicians want by claiming &#8220;it&#8217;s for the climate&#8221; (and will have zero, as in absolute zero, impact on the climate).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Looks like the new climate slush fund tax is now live: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsweek.com\/hawaii-tourist-tax-hotel-room-cruise-ship-josh-green-2078471\">https:\/\/www.newsweek.com\/hawaii-tourist-tax-hotel-room-cruise-ship-josh-green-2078471<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s a slush fund, financed by people who can&#8217;t vote in Hawaii, to squander money on most anything the politicians want. They literally admit they don&#8217;t know how the money will be spent!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5052","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government-regulatory","category-taxes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5052","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5052"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5052\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5052"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5052"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5052"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}