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Need It, Want It, Hate it.  The hosts for this show are Jay Fidell and Tom Yamachika.  
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\nHere in Hawaii, we officially have a love-hate relationship with tourism.
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\nHow do we love it?  Look no further than the Hawaii Tourism Authority, which has been awarding lucrative marketing contracts \u2013 tens of millions of dollars per year.
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\nHow do we hate it?  We have been taxing the bejeebers out of tourists.  Tourists looking at their hotel folios are greeted with a state TAT of 10.25%, a county TAT of 3%, a state general excise tax of 4%, and, for most counties, a county surcharge on state tax of 0.5%.  That\u2019s a whopping combined tax rate of close to 18% under current law.
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\nWith all of these mixed messages going out to what is, happily or unhappily, our No. 1 economic driver, the possibility of economic waste looms large.
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