Being one of the highest taxed states in the nation, that’s hardly the case.
The problem is we pay all too much and get apathy and mediocrity in return as demonstrated by the video on the news last night of the garbage man indiscriminately through trash to the wind in Pearl City.  Do you seriously think anything is going to happen to him?  Of course not!  His “supervisor” won’t want to make waves and if it ever escalated to a level where anyone with any real authority could do anything they would be stifled by a battle with his union.
That’s why anyone rarely has anything nice to say when things go as they should in Hawaii.