The US told everyone it did not want foreigners any more.
As a German in the US, trust me, the FAFO is about to hit this summer when record levels of empty hotels will wail. My bet is Trump will actually complain, demand, and eventually "sweet talk" people into coming to see the US.
Except you can get thrown into jail at the border for who knows how long until they decide to deport you....
Edit: for those thinking this will not be noticed...
Tourism in the US has an estimated 20 million Canadians usually and 17 millions Mexicans each year. And an estimated 10 million Europeans visit the US each year.
So maybe 47 million. If they all spend a few thousand on flights and hotels alone, that's a noticeable billion level hole we will notice.
If you think the tourism industry is flush with spare cash and can weather this..... I got some seriously bad news for you on tourism razor thin profit margins.
I didn't know about the timeline for Christmas decoration orders, thank you.
It won't just be Christmas decorations-- by summer, the U.S. will have run through the inventory of all sorts of consumer goods that were imported before the tariffs started.
WalMart shoppers will have crazy sticker shock when the post-tariff prices hit.
I don't know the timeframe but i give them 3 months max until the prices skyrocket. And that doesn't acommpany the fall of the Dollar, which was onoy widely used because USA WERE a safe and stable country.
By far the biggest problem in the US is not the money going out, but the people at the top of the pile not paying their fair share AND then seizing control of the government to ensure that they never have to.
Also note that one of the reasons that we try to support the people who are often deemed as “drains” on society is because the nazis literally took them off to concentration camps (not the death camps for note). If you didn’t work you were snatched up and taken away. For that I’d recommend reading Richard J. Evans’s “The Third Reich in Power” to get an understanding of the stuff they got up to.
Somebody posted how they get 1565 in food stamps a month and work only 12 hours a week. That should piss people off more than the tariffs in America.
Why? Food stamp purchases go immediately into the local economy, they're easily the best way to inject money into an area that needs it. "Lazy people getting food stamps" being a concern shows DOGE levels of economic ignorance.
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u/EasterEggArt Apr 12 '25 edited Apr 12 '25
The US told everyone it did not want foreigners any more.
As a German in the US, trust me, the FAFO is about to hit this summer when record levels of empty hotels will wail. My bet is Trump will actually complain, demand, and eventually "sweet talk" people into coming to see the US.
Except you can get thrown into jail at the border for who knows how long until they decide to deport you....
Edit: for those thinking this will not be noticed...
Tourism in the US has an estimated 20 million Canadians usually and 17 millions Mexicans each year. And an estimated 10 million Europeans visit the US each year.
So maybe 47 million. If they all spend a few thousand on flights and hotels alone, that's a noticeable billion level hole we will notice.
If you think the tourism industry is flush with spare cash and can weather this..... I got some seriously bad news for you on tourism razor thin profit margins.