Once he finishes logging, mining and drilling them, not many people will want to visit America’s National Parks, anyway.
That’s a great way to discourage tourism dollars.
Yeah TBH I always figured that part of his policy impact was just a casualty but he appears to actually have it out for the tourism industry.
I wanna be a handler!
…welcome Mr Robert Pinsky Minisky. I was sent here to pick you up from the airport on behalf of great Orange leader. Where would you like to go after we take you to your room we have meny park and a huge museum special for tourism entertainment.
Oh Costco? Mr, Robert! That’s for commoners. Let me show you the place we call store. Special for tourism!
😂😂😂 Can’t pay a fee if you don’t go! 🤡🤡🤡
Well, he’s certainly not going for a culture victory but I think we knew that already.
Ditched a science victory as well. What’s left? Religious? Maybe but unlikely. Domination? Even the US can’t do that. Diplomatic? Not a fucking chance. So…points I guess?
he is going for the, loot the entire house, option. Already took the gold from fort knox.
Ditched a science victory as well. What’s left? Religious? Maybe but unlikely. Domination? Even the US can’t do that. Diplomatic? Not a fucking chance. So…points I guess?
Would need to have tourist in the first place
There wasn’t any danger of me coming to spend my money in that third world shithole anyway.
Where do you live?
I live in Canada.
I will never again visit that shithole country called the United States of America.
But you continue to use its products. And, fascism only lost in Canada by 3% in your last election. You’re next.
I live in a country that so far has not started shipping their citizens to El Salvador with 0 due process and the majority not having any record. I live in a country that is not so far building Alligator Auschwitz which government officials are suggesting feeding all the immigrants to the alligators.
I have a lot more examples if you would like me to post them…
Tell me where you live and I’ll tell you how far away from fascism you are. The US is just a testing area.
I already know.
That is why I wrote in my previous post so far as I do not trust my countries newest leader as he is starting leaning towards fascism(Canada). We are not there yet though unlike the states who are right now deep into fascism.
The states are right now actively a fascist country with a drooling shit covered convicted rapist/felon who is a puppet for Theil and the rest of the project 2025 gang.
Canada beat fascism by 3%, you’re fascist by next election. Which sucks.
I won’t ever visit that shithole of a country either. I live 9 ranks above the US according to the UN Human Development Index, although I’m sure that gap will widen with president Cheeto at the helm.
>Claims to live in better country
>Still a mad little prick
We really are all the same in the end.
Also there’s 2 countries in 8th place, and I can’t tell if this is just regular European bigotry because you’re from the Netherlands and naturally dislike anyone who doesn’t ride bicycles across the province sized chunk of land you call a country, or if you’re from Hong Kong and are lashing out because another country is also getting taken over by authoritarian bastards.
We dislike america because it is a shithole and now turning into a fascist shithole. Americans love guns more than their children, americans are uneducated by design and are only happy when they see that someone else is even worse off than them, making them make life actively worse for others.
So what country?
I’m surprised how low South Korea and Japan rank on that. With the things I’ve heard about their health and wellness, I would have figured they’d rank above the U.S.
Just say it
Maybe consider that some people do enjoy privacy on the internet.
You can’t read can you?
Not really privacy when they are already saying it
Counting too difficult for you?
They are American. So we both know the answer.
Rude. Our public schools are not great and numbers are scary. You’re being discriminatory.
I’m not interested in your game. 🤡
cant pay if they arnt visiting in the first place.
I’m sure having to have your ID checked when visiting your own national parks won’t have anything to do with ICE. This will impact Americans more than it will by costing a few extra dollars for international visitors.
I am sure they will have ice there ready to take anyone they please at the park gate now that they have a 50 billion dollar budget due to taking away everyone’s health care and more now that bbb bill passed. Travelling to the states would most likely be a death warrant to a significant amount of people.
Trump is just stupid. Many countries that rely on tourism do this, they have free or near free entry for citizens and ~$20-100 entry for foreigners. This helps them generate a significant portion of their annual budget.
I haven’t verified these numbers, but quick searching days that roughly 14–15 million foreign tourists visit U.S. national parks each year, accounting for about 4% of total park visits. If we charge $20 per person for international visitors, that’s $280–300 million annually… that’s… Peanuts for the US.
I wouldn’t be opposed to it at all if the fees are only used to preserve and maintain the national parks, but you know this fucker just wants to funnel the money into deep pockets.
Orange convicted rapist/felon is a drooling geriatric baboon. Thiel and the project 2025 gang are the ones to watch.
Which countries charges $20-100 for visiting an equivalent of a national park or museum? Not questioning you, but curious.
There are places that charges a tourist tax that is for everyone not living there and paid through the hotel or tourist apartment.
Hawaii does this. Hanauma Bay is free for locals but charges $25 for tourists.
Good idea, I bet they use it to better and maintain their parks unlike rump who will just line his pockets.
I’ve seen this a number of places when traveling (Morocco, Thailand, Vietnam, Kenya come to mind). The price for foreigners was still quite reasonable (nowhere near $100) and it’s never really bothered me. Not sure if it is an equity of access measure (local income is lower) or that they already support it via taxes etcetera. Either I think is appropriate.
This also already happens in the US some places. There are resident and non-resident prices for some museums in NYC, or town/county run parks(think beaches). In Hawaii many attractions have kamaʻāina prices listed (aka resident).
The above examples usually operated on the honor system. Sometimes I saw “with ID” on a sign but never saw them checked.
I think it would be reasonable to charge slightly elevated rates to non-residents for national parks, but it should not be punitive, and it should 100% go towards supporting the parks. It’s really dumb to be pushing that now though as if people don’t already have a thousand reasons not to visit the US and spend their money here…
I had this happen in India, although I don’t know if it was the particular site or if it was a general policy. I saw it as paying less than I would have paid for a comparable museum at home, while citizens are encouraged to connect with their heritage. I was fine with it.
But the US is an expensive place, so you’re only making it unobtainable. National parks should not be a profit center, and I barely agree with charging anyone. I especially disagree with requiring ID, making this logically unenforceable.
And of course I’d expect this to turn into racism really quickly.
Nepal and India both had places where foreigners would pay much more than locals. Fine with me, i earn much more too.
I’m not sure how many other countries have the equivalent of US National Parks. They’re pretty exceptional, which is why it’s a fucking travesty that they were/are trying to sell off the land.
What foreign tourists? Nobody is gonna visit out of fear of being trafficked to some random country’s prison.
Don’t call it “being trafficked”, call it “surprise random country visit”.
Random Gator visit. We don’t deport, we want the workers. That’s the plan. Slaves.
Depends on who you talk to. A lot of Republican talking heads seem to think the plan is elimination.
I think a lot of people have their own agendas, and as long as they get what they want, they’re okay with someone screwing us in a hole they aren’t using.
or the alligator alcatraz in the everglades.
Could just be a way to make it so that if you do anything anywhere you’ll have to ID knowing full well there’s no foreigners visiting
He’s making it easier and easier for me to not visit the shithole.
Yo I live in this shithole give me a few years and we’ll hopefully see you then.
Am in the shithole, let me know if you need people to defend you against it.
Amazing that a hotel owner hates tourism that much.
It’s actually getting kind of hard to think of new, stupider ways to ruin the economy and raise the cost of living. Parody is getting close to being indistinguishable from reality.
- Blanket tariffs for goods with low domestic production? Done.
- Imprisoning laborers who do domestic farming? Yes.
- Deporting legal, tax-paying noncitizens? Yep.
- Pissing off citizens of countries that contribute significantly to local tourism? Indeed.
- Asking potential tourists to pay extra for the privilege of visiting a to-be-sold-for-industrial-logging park? Why not.
- Cutting healthcare and replacing it with a bonus for the 0.001%? Might as well!
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Scare away all the best and brightest of the entire world that you brought to your country to give the competitive edge in science, engineering and tech.
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Make the business climate so uncertain that nobody wants to invest anything in research or build new facilities, except in moving their facilities out of the country
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I’m just waiting for the economy to catch up and trigger the next Great Depression
It may be the Greatest Depression. People are saying they have never seen a bigger Depression.
“To fund improvements and enhanced experiences across the park system, I’ve just signed an executive order to raise entrance fees for foreign tourists while keeping prices low for Americans. The national parks will be about America first.”
Oh thank god! After slashing over $1 billion from the nps budget and firing over 5,000 of its workers I was beginning to think this guy maybe didn’t care about the national parks. What a relief!
He literally has no concept of making this nation one where others are envious of it. Instead it’s just grift, grift, grift.
dumbfuck, we are in canada. where parks are free this summer.
Because there’s a contract dispute with the foreign agency contracted to manage our parks.
Which happened after severe cuts about 2 decades ago.
Don’t act all proud.
Why shouldn’t they? National Parks are free. For everyone.
The reason is irrelevant to the statement.
