The rankings of the 50 states by "Fiscal Condition" was released today. Following the lead of Donohue at Stanford claiming (using "synthetic models") that CCW causes an increase in crime, I'm going to venture that 1. the greater the percentage of a state's population ("per capita") that carry firearms/have CCW licenses/permits, and 2. The less restrictive the state laws are regarding gun ownership (i.e. no restrictions on "assault weapons", "high capacity magazines", "assault pistols", "registration", "waiting periods", "permits to acquire", etc., etc.) The BETTER will be the state's fiscal condition. Conversely, the more restrictive the gun laws re ownership and carry, the more likely a state is to have a poor fiscal condition. Therefore, ahem, "good/freedom of choice" gun laws CAUSE states to have a good fiscal condition, and "bad/restrictive" gun laws CAUSE states to have a bad fiscal condition. Look at the top five and bottom five lists below, it's OBVIOUS.

Since Hawaii is currently ranked 27th, the best and fastest and surest way to improve the fiscal condition of the state is to repeal all the irrational idiotic absurd nonsense useless ineffective-as-crime-deterrent current restrictive gun laws on the books and to immediately institute "permitless/Constitutional carry" (or maybe just "shall issue" open and concealed carry).

P.S. This study, like Donohue's, currently remains "unpublished".

I'm sending this to Ige right now so he can have Chin write the proposed law(s), call a special session of the legislature to pass it (them), and get this damn sucking economy going here in Hawaii!

Ranking the States by Fiscal Condition 2017 Edition

https://www.mercatus.org/statefiscalrankings

Top Five States: Florida, North Dakota, South Dakota, Utah, and Wyoming rank in the top five states.

Bottom Five States: Maryland, Kentucky, Massachusetts, Illinois, and New Jersey rank in the bottom five states

I think the problem with our state is that we are socialists in a capitalist environment.
We take from those that earn and are indiscriminate to who we give them to.
We penalize those that are successful and coddle those who do less and label them victims.
Career politicians who lack outside, life experiences ruin the landscape. They fail to realize that part of a growing economy is that you will have people who are left behind by choice or lack of competiveness. Just like a marathon. The latest idea conjured up by our socialist leaders is basic income. Now how would that affect our economy? Going back to the marathon. So if everyone got more than a Tshirt for participation; say they got $100 just for signing up with no fees. How many people would actually show up to run? How many that sign up trained to run? Attempt to run?
My opinion.