Here we go again

Once again, Forbes has studied Honolulu and found it wanting as a place to do business. Prepare for another round of gnashing of teeth on the part of the State and City and another round of "I told you so" from the Republicans.

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I suspect the moment there are any successes in doing business here, the State Government will create an initiative to tax these profitable companies to death in hopes of getting their cut of the bottomline.

On past performance, I'd say your suspicion would be borne out rapidly.

Two companies the state bent over backwards to lure here with tax incentives, and meanwhile cited them incessantly in ads touting Hawaii's business friendliness and particularly its strengths in the high-technology sector:

1. WorldPoint
2. SquareSoft USA

I hope you all know what happened to those companies.

It's also interesting that PBN has a link to the Forbes story on their website, while I did not hear it mentioned on KITV or see it in the evening paper. We'll see what happens in tomorrow's papers.

In true MeFi form, I created a Hawai´i Stories account to access said article. (I ran into a sign-up page.)

Login: histories
Password: histories

That was you? I was trying to figure out who thought I wanted to receive Forbes spam. Heh.

Steve Forbes came to speak at a meeting I helped coordinate here in 2000, when he was grilled by the local press on his original article (in which the state was referred to the "People's Republic of Hawaii"). He stated then that we were making progress, but had a long way to go.

I can only imagine that the judgement today is, we haven't gone anywhere since.

PBN did a small write up yesterday.

Damn. You mean the null@hawaiistories.com address actually works? Whoops. If you can, you should get procmail to send all mail to that address to /dev/null.

Re: the article -- well hell. If I show the article to my mom, you think she'd stop bugging me about trying to find work in Hawai´i? Heheheh. Probably not.

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