I don't appreciate your condescension. You're "effectively" misleading the public if you're going to stand by the statement that Kauai residents pay the GET for rail. You're still failing to make a distinction between the GET and the surcharge. If you care about other infrastructure you might be surprised to find out that those "legislative kickbacks" you talk about are actually funds that go into the Department of Transportation's budget to help pay for highway maintenance. Your characterization of the intentions of the legislature is insulting and careless. 

If we had to wait until we solved homelessness, made our other infrastructure immaculate & fixed pension funding, we'd never get anywhere. That's why there is a separate funding stream for rail so as not to compete with these issues. You clearly are skeptical of rail's benefits and do not value it, I am not & do. Neither are the people of the City Council who voted for this or the majority of voters who reelected Mayor Caldwell.