Melvin Partido Sr. nailed it. Ige is good for those (mostly public workers from in or out of state) receiving a state income tax free pension. Abercrombie proposed taxing pensions from above $74k per family. Very reasonable considering our underfunded pension liability. Ige has gone about heaping the burden of solving the pension shortfall upon the middle class that will never see a pension let alone a tax free one.  It's shameful, wrong and hurtful to so many. Not the right thing, not the right way.