Representative Chris Halford

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Where Is All the Tax Money Going To?
Click here to read the Honolulu Advertiser article containing Rep. Chris Halford's comments on the paradox that Hawaii has the nation's highest tax bill yet ranks near the bottom of states in terms of service delivery.

"Hawaii ranks at or near the bottom of states in many categories of service delivery. Hawaii's Legislature has never implemented the constitutional mandate to regularly provide comprehensive management and performance audits of all state government. As such, no one can claim that the state gets much value for the large sums it spends. Addtionally, the waste in government cannot be corrected until it is identified."