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- danxmason, on 10/17/2009, -7/+60This article is poorly written I don't understand what it's saying. Is it saying all tourist visas are charged 10 dollars? Or is it saying you don't have to pay 10 dollars if you go to Las Vegas? If everyone has to pay, what does Vegas have to do with it?
- Lifehedge, on 10/18/2009, -4/+47What a bunch of clowns... First fingerprint them and now tax them. Yup, that should increase tourism.
- Thuban, on 10/18/2009, -9/+39Does it ever occur to the idiots in Washington to cut spending. Our Economy rises and falls, why can't spending???? You cannot tax your way to prosperity. The tourists (and their money) will simply go somewhere else.
- TrendyTim, on 10/18/2009, -1/+27The number one reason tourism is down since Sept 11, is you pretty much have to get a rectal exam to enter these days and most people don't wanna go through that.
- AgeofMastery, on 10/18/2009, -10/+34You missed the part about the Republican cosponsors right?
- kaelyiesta, on 10/18/2009, -4/+24Exactly. This is the problem with the party lines recently. You get the democrats to start wars and grant monopolies to certain corporations and the democrats don't care because it's their team and republicans don't care because those issues don't bother them. You get republicans to expand government and all forms of taxation and the republicans don't care because it's their team and democrats don't care because those issues don't bother them.
It's like people simply don't recognize that both sides are doing the same thing, and we continue this left vs right lie. - OneOfNone, on 10/18/2009, -1/+19While tourism will not suffer initially, this is a bad idea that will backfire. Most countries will not just stand by and watch their citizens being fined unilaterally. So, expect American tourists to pay reciprocal $10 when they go abroad, and that will happen in *multiple* countries. "No cost to taxpayers" is BS in this case.
- wreckosaurus, on 10/18/2009, -0/+17Here's a better article because this one doesn't make a lot of sense
http://travel-industry.uptake.com/blog/2009/09/09/ ...
Also this bill passed on September 9th. Old news - appleseed1234, on 10/18/2009, -2/+16...Harry Reid, the Democratic Senator from Nevada, and John Ensign, the Repubublican Senator from Nevada...
Those damn Repubublicans.
On a side note, it seems as though America is doing everything it can to impede cross border mobility. - HappyScrappy, on 10/18/2009, -4/+15Obama isn't in the senate, and the bill has not even been presented to him to sign. It doesn't reflect on Obama or the executive branch in any way.
At least not so far. - thedivinelyevil, on 10/18/2009, -0/+10Canada must be a slut if it's charging people to get into its pants!
- smegthelight, on 10/18/2009, -0/+10it's a public - private partnership managing the funds, so it's just a way for a few senators to funnel some money to their buddies who are now running the managing company. They may run an add or two. Probably VERY expensive ads.
Nothing new, that's what they are there for. - inactive, on 10/18/2009, -5/+15The bill was supported by the two senators from Nevada. Las Vegas (which is in Nevada) is a MAJOR tourist destination. The money made from this fee is going to promote "Las Vegas-style" tourism in America. Las Vegas being a MAJOR tourist destination would be one of the primary beneficiaries. What's not to get?
- HappyScrappy, on 10/18/2009, -0/+10This is a pretty crummy article. It posits that we would use the money to attract people to visit Vegas and then condemns that saying we don't really want foreigners to see Vegas, do we?
It's not about Vegas.
Also, there's some seriously bad math going on here. At $10/head for people who come from countries that don't require a visa, that would mean we only get 20M visits/year from those countries, which seems very, very low. - kg92101, on 10/18/2009, -3/+13Let the madness stop!!! This just goes to show you how ass backwards congress is...
- InactiveUser, on 10/18/2009, -0/+9Another reason not to go to the States. If being strip searched at the Airport was not enough, the risk of injury from a jackass cop with a taser gun is out of hand, the risk of death from a trigger happy idiot cop is over the top and all that assumes your name is not on Dick head Cheeny's list.
- nosecohn, on 10/18/2009, -0/+8Living outside the U.S., I can tell you that many people don't want to go there anyway. The insane visa restrictions since 9/11, along with overzealous CPB agents, have made it so that some travelers will actually pay hundreds of dollars more in airfare just to avoid a U.S. stopover on their way somewhere else.
- pilot3033, on 10/18/2009, -3/+11and thusly buried for being unclear, poorly written and otherwise lame.
- quirkopatra, on 10/18/2009, -1/+8Except by illegals!
Oh, come on. That was good. - quirkopatra, on 10/18/2009, -0/+7Well, lemme see. How do they get the tax revenue? How is the money dispersed? A what point is the tax paid? If you don't fly into Nevada...does the place you flew into get the tax money?
Well, why not California? Isn't that a big tourist destination?
Are Nevada and Hawaii our biggest destinations, or are they getting more of the money somehow?
It just seems a little muddied. - wilf_brim, on 10/18/2009, -2/+8Here is the ironic part: this is a new tax to fund a new bureaucracy to "promote tourism", One thing that is for sure: if implemented expect similar taxes on U.S. travelers.
- astromatt, on 10/18/2009, -5/+11America: Canada's Pants
- bfeagan, on 10/18/2009, -2/+7From what I can judge from the article that this article cites:
http://www.meetingnews.com/mimegasite/news/article ...
this fee is so that the US can pay for advertising in other countries to visit the US.
Cuz, you know, that makes more sense than ceasing the Iraq/Afghan conflicts and diverting some of that funding to this more logical effort.... - quirkopatra, on 10/18/2009, -1/+6Well, the article DOES mention that some other countries are annoyed by it.
- NeverFlyEconomy, on 10/18/2009, -0/+5I believe this quote has it right:
"Only in Alice in Wonderland could a penalty be seen as promoting the activity on which it is imposed"
- John Bruton, the European Commission's ambassador to the United States. - marko777, on 10/18/2009, -0/+5OK, so after robbing US citizens, the big corporations went after everyone else who might cross our border.
//starts filling out oxygen tanks while the air is still free - drakelord, on 10/18/2009, -1/+5If you hold on to your receipt, you can get all of the sales tax refunded if you are not from Canada. Just have to mail them to the respective department and you get a check back.
- Elranzer, on 10/18/2009, -1/+5"I just want to hear one of you liberals say it once...the Democrats are being stupid. Just once."
Funny, cuz you'd most likely shoot yourself than to ever say the Republicans are being stupid (which they are). - buffalogums, on 10/18/2009, -0/+4Congress is literally borderline retarded. Not even a rational thought.
- Barackalypse, on 10/18/2009, -3/+7Its another fee that adds zero value but funnels more money to the Government.
- Schmich, on 10/18/2009, -0/+3Not only that. The US government demanded countries to have chips inside of their passports first containing biometric data of the persons head in some sort of 3D and recently this year fingerprinting. I don't understand the US government for demanding this and I also do not get countries, eg. mine (Sweden), for not having the balls to say "no" but I'll assume the US government just threatens with some sort of trade sanctions.
So those $10 is nothing compared to the extra amount of money we have to pay when we get new passports. For someone like me who currently lives outside his country, due to these needed technologies to make a passport, I have to pay over $200 for a new one. Refusing to give a scan of your head or your fingerprints means no passport and if we you're still running around with the old none-biometric passport it _literally_ takes months to get in the US. - bringitontimx, on 10/18/2009, -1/+4It's all 0bama's fault. Yes, i'm going to blame him, and only him, even if he has nothing to do with this.
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- PeppermintPig, on 10/18/2009, -0/+3"The legislation is asinine, I'll agree with that. But don't put the blame all on the Democrats when the bill has bipartisan support."
I don't. Why must this be placed in a context of persecution?? That's my point. - Schmich, on 10/18/2009, -0/+3Yeah! Totally right, especially with the dollars' value these days. No but really, it's the principle and the reasoning behind it. Can you imagine how f'ed up the World would be if every country did this? Also read my other comment about the passports and you'll understand why many Europeans are getting fed up.
- PeppermintPig, on 10/18/2009, -1/+4Only a statist would deal in such absolutes.
- inactive, on 10/18/2009, -0/+3This is not so much an issue of Democrats but of Big Government's encroachment on our lives. Fingerprinting tourists? If this was done under Bush we wouldn't be hearing the end of it - from Democrats, and of course the ceaseless defense of the legislation by Republicans.
Both sides of the aisle need to stop the growth of big government. But, they won't because that would limit their power. Both Republicans and Democrats want to control our lives, albeit through different ways. - andytehpanda, on 10/18/2009, -0/+3"Republicans believe every day is the Fourth of July, but the Democrats believe every day is April 15."-Ronald Regan
- DavidNiven, on 10/18/2009, -11/+14Doesn't really matter. DEMOCRATS are in power now. They get the lion's share of the credit or blame...in this case, blame.
I just want to hear one of you liberals say it once...the Democrats are being stupid. Just once. - AgeofMastery, on 10/18/2009, -2/+5The legislation is asinine, I'll agree with that. But don't put the blame all on the Democrats when the bill has bipartisan support.
- quirkopatra, on 10/18/2009, -4/+7Yeah, I had the same problem. It's kind of unclear.
- mydigglogin, on 10/18/2009, -1/+3Eh, no big deal... Australia for example has been doing that for years. They just disguise it as a "visa" - it's electronic and an airline can get it for you.
- russ3, on 10/18/2009, -1/+3Whats the difference between a 10 dollar fee, and 15% national sales tax in Canada?
- galore, on 10/18/2009, -2/+4Tacky.
- Elranzer, on 10/19/2009, -0/+2"I'm critical of Republicans. Let's see Democrats become critical of their own, too. "
Democrats ARE critical of each other. This is why they can't just automatically pass anything they want even though they "control" Congress.
Unlike Republicans, who complain NOW about Bush but when he was in power, didn't say a god damn thing. - bringitontimx, on 10/18/2009, -1/+3this is ***** CONGRESS we're talking about here.
- Barackalypse, on 10/18/2009, -2/+4I hope the first thing they study is the effect increasing the cost of visiting has on the number of visitors.
- morepowerr, on 10/18/2009, -0/+2If nothing else we probably deserve to be punished for electing Senators who, by all appearances, are unblinking lobby-owned morons.
I like that. - quirkopatra, on 10/18/2009, -0/+2Oh Canada, is that Minnesota in your pocket or are you just happy to see me?
- bringitontimx, on 10/18/2009, -1/+32/3rds vote in Congress instantly kills a veto.
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