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Let us look more deeply at one of these special funds. For this illustration we will look at:
(HB1730 CD1) Motor Vehicle Insurance; Drivers Education Fund; Fee Increase.
Description: Raises the drivers education fund underwriters fee from $2 to $3 a year on each motor vehicle; allocates $1 of the fee to the judiciary program and $2 to the department of education (DOE) programs .
We see that some of the funds go to the DOE. The DOE like most other departments has a budget. In this case we know that the DOE budget is far larger than the amount it will get via HB1730 or any other fees which may be diverted to the DOE. Consequentially, these fees do not increase the budget of the DOE they merely decrease the amount the DOE gets from the general fund.
The deception lies in the fact that these fees are used to decrease the draw upon the general fund. Yet they are promoted in such a way as to imply that they increase the budget of the DOE.
The Ohio State lottery was promoted as an aid to education. Only after the lottery was implemented did the voters find out that actually the DOE budget remained the same. All the monies from the lottery merely decrease the amount the DOE gets from the general fund. Therefore, one could correctly state that the Ohio lottery funds the general fund. Is Hawaii any different in it's handling of special funds?
Conversely, if fees fund a fund to an amount greater than the budget then that fund becomes a target to be raided for the benefit of the general fund. The Hurricane fund and several other funds were raided this year.
A fee that is mandatory is just as bad as a tax that is mandatory.
There is a direct correlation between freedom and prosperity.
The Great People of Hawaii demand freedom and it's consequential prosperity.
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