On Thu, 2003-04-24 at 23:14, Virgil wrote:
Hi all,
I went to the HVCA party today to listen to speaker Ted Liu who is in charge
of DBEBT. I found the gathering to be interesting and informative although I
felt a bit out of place. When you talk to these people about Apache is they
think
Virgil sez
After listening to Ted Liu I'm...split 50/50 on the issue of whether
to change and better the act or don't do any changes at all which
most of the community has agreed.
then Warren sez
...but I think the issue is the stimulus was too large, and with some
loopholes some companies
but somehow there needs to be a way to ensure that
this thing doesn't create 5-years-and-
out-by-design efforts.
My 2cents: I agree. The idea of Act221, as I
understand it, is to foster long-term growth of the
hi-tech industry in Hawaii.
-stan
Act221
From what I've heard it was a way to try to get Intel to move over here,
along with the fact that Silicon Valley has no ceiling to how expensive
the cost of living will get and the fact that they have hired hundreds
of Electronics technicians from Heald College and were worried they
would
No one will move until they see signs of success from local companies. So
far, we have few.
-Ho'ala
Kevin Goad said:
From what I've heard it was a way to try to get Intel to move over
here... Cayetano needed a way to entice them and that was one of them.
My argument to some of the HTTA members (no names mentioned) was that ACT221
was too generous to a RD company. Being that ACT221 being more generous to
an RD company, if an investor were to decide where to put his money, he
would most likely put it towards an RD company rather than to a
As I understand it, there are a few cases of abuse that should be
remedied. This does not merit the public smear campaign that the Lingle
administration and now the Star-Bulletin seem to endorse. By smear
campaign I mean publicly berating the entire Act for the offenses of a
few. By doing
decision-makers.
These are the tactics of this session, a lot of bills and acts are being
attacked in an effort to Balance the Budget, I think its an all out
assault to see who will fight for them and if there is no support the
bill or act will get killed. They were even brave enough to try to
Good words Scott! Our state needs to attract new business. Some companies
are abusing 221 and that needs to be stoped, but we shouldn't change 221.
The Tax office has changed what businesses need to do to use 221,
specifically addressing the abuses to date.
The problems I see with 221 is that
Thank you Scott. Those words are inspiring words to say the least and
provides good ammo on why the State shouldn't change ACT221. I'm beginning
to see the light.
Yesterday at the HVCA part with Ted Liu proceedings, I stated my opinions
about ACT221. Its that I don't support it. I wholeheartedly
: Friday, April 25, 2003 11:02 AM
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Subject: Re: [luau] What does Everyone think of ACT221?
Thank you Scott. Those words are inspiring words to say the least and
provides good ammo on why the State shouldn't change ACT221. I'm
beginning
to see the light.
Yesterday at the HVCA part
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