Taxes are less of an issue. Airbnbs pay proper taxes, too, both occupancy tax and in some cities a registration fee along with it. I have no idea if they pay less taxes per guest than hotels, but they do collect occupancy tax like hotels. Not sure if they also have all the other local/city taxes that get tacked onto hotel rooms, though. Maybe?
The issue is people are buying houses that could be a home to someone living on the island full time, but those houses are rented to tourists. The islands are small, so it’s not like they can just build a bunch more houses for locals. And even if they did, the demand for tourist housing is higher than the number of rooms available so those new houses would just get rented too. So you can charge all the taxes you want, but it won’t make up for a lack of housing for locals.
What is clear is that hotels are not catering to the desires of traveling families. People usually aren’t renting houses through Airbnb because they are cheaper than hotels. They are renting because they are way more comfortable when you have more than a few people, either a family of 4 or multiple families together. Parents can get their own bedroom to change clothes in, have sex in, whatever without their kids being around. Kids get their own room so the parents don’t have to deal with them. Couples can get separate rooms from other couples when traveling together but still have a shared space to hang out and watch movies/drink together. They can also be cheaper per room if you look at getting multiple hotel rooms for a group of people, but not always. There just aren’t very many hotels with large spaces like that. The ones that do are called presidential suites and cost $4000 per night.
Don’t forget the benefits of having an actual fully equipped kitchen. Eating out every night can get expensive so being able to cook is a nice alternative.
It’s huge. With a large family (or given recent inflation of pricings for eating out a small family) you can stay for an extra day or two with the savings from cooking some meals at your accomodations.
This is exactly the appeal of an Airbnb for me. Solo traveling a hotel is adequate, bit with a family having the extra space and kitchen is a game changer. Not to mention the individual charm of staying in a unique spot vs staying on a corporate decorated to the lowest common denominator hotel room.
This is something I consistently see overlooked in these discussions. I don’t dispute that it increases prices for locals and there needs to be some balance, but hotels are not offering anything close to Airbnb’s for a large section of travelers.
Then it’s time to pressure hotels to start catering to what people want vs states allowing private equity and private out-of-state ownership of housing in Hawaii.
Having access to a holiday domicile will never outweigh the need for year-round housing for residents and Native Hawaiians. Remember almost 50% of Native Hawaiians now live elsewhere, primarily due to the cost of living and lack of available/affordable housing in Hawaii.
I totally agree that housing for locals takes precedence. 30 years ago families were content to just cram into a hotel and deal with that annoyance, or spend a lot of money on vacation rentals found through classified ads. The market has changed, and hotels have not changed to keep up. And local jurisdictions are not pushing hotels to adapt to help out.
She is a federal judge. Nothing will ever happen to her as long as there are 34 Republicans in the Senate.
Cannon might screw up badly enough to get the case taken away (I doubt, I’m sure her handlers are coaching her on exactly what she can get away with), but she’s going to be on this bench until she gets appointed to the supreme court.
Those arguments were always bullshit. He never went through the process of declassifying them. We also already know that he bragged to a reporter that he had classified documents. So he knew he had them, he knew he should not, and he knew he would get in legal trouble if he gave them back.
It is my understanding that the statues that he’s being charged under do not depend on the classification of the documents. The problem is that the documents belonged to the government and were not returned upon multiple requests. Therefore, even if the documents were declassified, which they were not, the same charges could still be brought against him.
Right? They must not think AI and automation can replace very many human laborers, otherwise they wouldn’t consider declining birth rates to be such a crisis.
You can have both a labor shortage and mass unemployment. It occurs when workers are skilled for an industry with decreasing or no demand while another industry that requires different skills has increasing demand.
A good example of this is the high demand in the US for so called “Blue Collar” jobs. We have a shortage of trades people (Electricians, Plumbers, HVAC, etc) and far too many Business and Marketing people. There’s 100,000 MBA’s out there looking for a job and there’s 100,000 Plumbing Contractors trying to hire someone.
Easy and widespread access to guns plus no functioning mental (or otherwise) healthcare system is as lovely a combo as projectile vomiting plus explosive diarrhea.
Plus socioeconomic inequality, racism, etc. fueling gang violence, which is a far larger part of gun violence and other violent crime than the “random” mass shooter.
Republicans torpedoing this is political stupidity… it’s basically a free win for Biden where he looks like he did a good thing and doesn’t actually need to allocate the funds.
Except that Biden looks great - far more young voters will be peeved over the GOP blocking this than would have actually benefitted from the policy. “Biden tried to forgive your loans but the GOP just had to block it in the courts” - it might make Biden look somewhat incompetent but it mostly just makes Republicans look like they hate young people who are struggling.
…far more young voters will be peeved over the GOP blocking this than would have actually benefitted from the policy.
Well, the ones who are actually paying attention will. The GOP is throwing everything the legally can to try to remain in power and get their orange dude elected to push the christofashism.
The Biden team needs to take their gloves off and go full out blasting all the shit the GOP is doing on every possible platform and media available with lawyers ready to intercept any GOP sue to silence them.
I know parents didn’t know how bad these places were years ago, and the people running them put on a good show, but anyone still willing to put their kid in one after they’ve been pretty thoroughly exposed should lose all of their children. This shit is sick.
There are no tests to be a parent. The overlap between those who would send their kids to these camps and those who are too stupid/ignorant to know what goes on there is basically a circle.
Attacking a toddler for your hateful, bigoted ideas seems like a completely normal way to get people on your side. /s
Asshole. I’m against punitive incarceration. People who attack children due to bigotry should be punished twice as hard as those attacking people who can defend themselves. The lunacy is unreal. I think the threat to society is obvious.
I tried to look for something like this happening before and don’t see anything. Maybe it’s my bad searching skills, but this is definitely not great for Trump’s plans. Not certain how convincing it is politically though.
Imo it could hurt him enough that he doesn’t win the election, if only because business leaders do pay attention to economists and they definitely do not want another round of inflation to happen so quickly after this last one.
The closest I could think about was Economists speaking out about Reaganomics. I also couldn’t find anything exactly like this, however I did find Bush Sr. Calling it voodoo economics and Democrats actually are credited in some cases as calling it Trickle Down economics as a negative. Even Gerald Ford attacked it, which is something coming from the guy who pardoned Nixon.
I found some criticism from Martin Feldstein in 1986 about the strength of supply side economics and some “extremists”, though that was after the fact.
cranking a dude’s hog while vaping weed in a theatre full of children. A completely accurate depiction of a former member of congress. How low we have come.
Maybe I’m being silly because I’m not in IT, but it would seem to me that one of the ways to avoid this sort of thing happening would be a diverse array of software to choose from rather than everyone using the same one. I don’t think compatibility should be an issue any more than it is for OpenOffice to be able to open Microsoft Word files. We’re not generally talking about complex interactions here, are we? It’s usually database info that can’t be access, isn’t it? But I don’t hear about diversification as a solution.
Please do explain to me what I’m missing because I feel like I’m missing something.
It’s the same problem with every other monopoly. Everyone wants it, both shareholders and customers. It’s objectively more efficient to standardize on the same equipment or software, train workers on it. It’s better for workers too since their skills are transferrable. It’s only bad when the negatives show up, such as price gouging by the shareholders, or them cutting corners in quality or security. But my point is that not going with a single vendor isn’t free on all sides of the equation, it requires work, which is why on average we tend to prefer monopolies even as consumers.
To put it bluntly, I really don’t want to have to think about grocers profit margins and prices after having worked 9 hours. I just want to get fucking eggs and bread from the store nearby. I don’t want to drive or bus ride to another one. It won’t happen. And that’s why it doesn’t. The assumptions about the individual (constantly shopping around for the best price) in the mainstream microeconomic theory are just wrong. This translates into small businesses (not only) shopping for their dealer sales software system.
Security doesn’t make money. They will have lost sales due to this event, but not nearly as much as they saved by skimping on security.
And they haven’t actually lost that many sales, either. If you’re going to buy a car, you’re going to buy a car. If the place is closed, you’re going to come back later. Few people are going to go to a competitor if they’ve already made their choice of brand. And even fewer are going to decide not to buy a car at all over this event.
Nope the bosses want us to use one of the largest platforms because those are the best supported… usually
Also security; in many places, IT is a cost rather than being seen as an investment… car dealers want a nice building because that attracts people— fsck IT, it doesn’t attract people to buy cars…
All major car franchises have their own systems. I’ve been away from car dealerships for a while now but they all use similar systems and for the most part the cheapest service is always the choice. The dealerships all have differing but competent standards when dealing connections to the cooperate head quarters but everything else is a crap shoot of poorly considered decisions driven by cost and only cost. Not that the hole that the crooks used were probably through the a dealership but its possible since I know how obtuse certain groups are at dealerships.
There are a lot of industries that have niche software needs. It’s hard for a competitor to break in because the market is only so big and it’s better to have something standard and time tested.
Interoperability is often limited to a one-time database migration, and often requires a specialist to do a lot of the transfer manually.
I don’t know if that’s the case with this software because it’s not my industry, but I’ve dealt with similar issues. You’d be surprised how much of the world still runs on AS/400
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