Unlike the City and HART, tourists do have a limit to what they are willing to spend so it is not correct to
assume that they will not consider cost increases such as a tax increase you propose. They also have other
alternative places to spend their money.  Hawaii does have a special allure but it becomes less and less
as development makes us look like any other tourist destination and as the quality of life here deteriorates.
Throwing more money at the rail project no matter where it is going to come from is not the answer
as we have all come to see.  The projected operating cost and maintenance of the rail is well over a 100 million
dollars per year. It is going to suck up every source of revenue that currently exists.  We are looking
at a financial collapse just as what happened in Puerto Rico and more recently in Illinois.