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Hawaii without the backing of the United States will be a poor and corrupt hellhole. They need the US more than the US needs them.

Hawaii's problems are mostly self-inflicted. The corrupt and incompetent ruling class encourages all the talk about sovereignty and blaming everything on haoles to prevent anyone from looking too closely at the people that are elected by and for those actually living in Hawaii.

Nobody on the mainland can prevent them from reforming their system of taxation which makes it nearly free to be an absentee landowner while putting almost the entire burden on people living and working on the islands. Will they? Don't hold your breath.

>Nobody on the mainland can prevent them from reforming their system of taxation which makes it nearly free to be an absentee landowner while putting almost the entire burden on people living and working on the islands. Will they? Don't hold your breath.

Nobody on the mainland reforms our equivalently landlord-favoring tax systems!

If you think its bad on the mainland...

While I sympathize with the sentiment, how would this "sovereignty" for Hawaii look like? As far as I could tell, their economy could not function on its own. Go back to hundreds of years ago with no hospitals, etc? Would population appreciate that? With large military bases present, it's a moot point anyway. If a country of Germany's size is not able to function as a sovereign country, what chances Hawaii has?

Something like Indian reservations in America? Still sovereign but still a state?

It doesn’t seem that the reservation model works well at least not when it comes to the welfare of its residents.

Maybe, but it shouldn't be up to the colonizers to determine that on their behalf. If sovereignty leaves them an economic wasteland then maybe they could join the US voluntarily, rather than through a coup organized by a cabal of fruit companies.

Using the term "boomer" means you lost my interest.

Also "literally". You and yours ruined an otherwise useful word. Probably forever. Thanks.

Don't have a cow, man.

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