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But why? Tourism is like 3% gdp for USA. That’s like hundreds of billions of annual dollars. Losing that would hurt. https://apps.bea.gov/scb/issues/2025/02-fe
by mnky9800n 11mo ago
But why? Tourism is like 3% gdp for USA. That’s like hundreds of billions of annual dollars. Losing that would hurt.
https://apps.bea.gov/scb/issues/2025/02-february/0225-travel-tourism-satellite-account.htm#:~:text=As%20the%20industry%20continued%20to,in%202023%20(table%20A). https://apps.bea.gov/scb/issues/2025/02-february/0225-travel...
- techblueberry 11mo ago1: I'm guessing it's mostly in blue states? 2: I think there's a real desire to sort of go hard on eliminating globalization in all ways. "America is for Americans" and all that. I think the ideology trumps economics considerations.
- yareally 11mo agoFlorida hasn't been voting blue recently. Tourism accounts for 8% of their Gross State Product versus 3% for California. California does bring in more tourism money, but it's still less percentage wise.
- techblueberry 11mo ago4d chess then.
- testing22321 11mo agoKeep foreigners out to keep Americans more in the dark about how things operate in the outside world. Don’t want any negative comparisons being made
- joquarky 11mo agoYou're assuming the goals are to improve rather than destroy.