To improve things, Cato recommends that Hawaii do this: cut spending “on sanitation and sewerage, parks and recreation, public buildings, health and hospitals” and other “miscellaneous” areas; relax the state’s “extreme land-use regulations”; and
adopt a “shall-issue concealed-carry license”. What a bunch of bullshit. I guess Cato institute has never been to Hawaii. Fair to say we don't spend enough on  sanitation and sewerage, parks and recreation, public buildings, health and hospitals. All categories of great examples  of crumbling infrastructure. Imagine if there weren't  “extreme land-use regulations”. Say goodbye to the trees, shorelines and ALL agricultural lands. The islands would be one big KAPU for the poor and average citizens.  And one of the nicest things about Hawaii is that we are all not carrying guns, because I'm sure we'd do our best to shoot each other more often if we had more guns.