Icelandic Trumpkins

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Clarissa

November 18, 2016

…The number of tourists has risen by as much as 30 percent every year for the last four years, according to Iceland’s Tourist Board. They brought in revenues of $3.2 billion in 2015, a third of the country’s export earnings. Tourism is the single biggest employer. . .

A poll in October conducted by the national broadcaster RUV reported that 87 percent of Icelanders want the government to raise fees or taxes on tourists.

Dumbasses would rather go hungry than adapt to even just a temporary presence of somebody a bit different. Note that they are in no hurry to create any alternative industries either. It’s just pouting and whining.

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5 responses to “Icelandic Trumpkins”

cliff arroyo

November 18, 2016

It’s completely normal for even places that are dependent on tourism to dislike actual tourists. I grew up in such a place (though tourists were more passing through than staying) and the general attitude among the locals was …… not real positive.

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xykademiqz

November 18, 2016

Yeah, it seems that nobody likes tourists.

(This is tangential to the topic of your post.)
The population of Iceland is some 300,000. It’s like a medium-sized city in the American Midwest. I don’t think Iceland has enough people to staff many industries. When you think of it, it barely makes sense to even have a university for such a small population (they do; I have a grad student from Iceland).

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Stille’s in a bar, on her phone

November 18, 2016

I’d have sworn Iceland’s main export is Eve Online. Shows what I know tho.

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Vic Crain

November 18, 2016

If you actually look at the taxes imposed on hotels and rental cars in some areas of the US, you would be shocked. I don’t see this as anti-anyone. Rather, it’s a normal human urge — let’s pay our bills with someone else’s money. The tourists don’t vote. The voters don’t see taxes as having a meaningful impact on what vacations people choose to take. (They actually might be correct on that.) Taxes on tourists are taxes the voters don’t have to pay.

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1. Clarissa
  
  November 18, 2016
  
  I couldn’t place the whole article here but if you follow the link, you’ll see that people are moaning about how the presence of tourists bothers me.
  
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