As a New Orleanian, I can very easily imagine what it’s like to live in a struggling economy while wealthy vulture tourists flock to take advantage of our food and culture. Some of them like it here so much they get their equity partners to buy up all the housing for AirBnBs. It’s so great.
Yeah, I’d love a tourist tax on everything here.
Idreamofcheesy@lemmy.world 6 months ago
I guess there’s a nice “fuck you” factor, but it’s unlikely that you’ll see any benefit from the extra tax.
In theory the community is already benefiting from tourist dollars.
You could hope it would price people out of traveling, but honestly it will probably just skew the demographic to be richer.
kandoh@reddthat.com 6 months ago
The people going to Japan have cash to spare, they’ll gladly pay extra and they won’t even notice it.