You nailed it on the head on that one. Kudos to Sen. Jill Tokuda for speaking on behalf of the taxpayers who are already overburdened. Each time we raise property taxes on homeowners who rent out their homes we effectively raise the rent. What do you expect the homeowners to do? The cost of living in Hawaii is so high that homeowners, too, have to raise their prices much like the way other business owners such as those that own the grocery stores. Rentals are a commodity. If you drive up the cost of doing business in the form of property taxes, you will see costs for those rentals going up. Teachers, being teachers, should understand that simply economic fact.