@mattblaze This is easy to decipher.

Step 1: Kill national parks tourism.
Step 2: "Look how badly our national parks are performing!"
Step 3: Sell off the national parks to the billionaires.
Step 4: Lawsuits, protests
Step 5: "Oh look it's an election year! What were we upset about again?"

Our only hope is that a lot of these crooks are super, SUPER dumb.

@mattblaze This is easy to decipher.

Step 1: Kill national parks tourism.
Step 2: "Look how badly our national parks are performing!"
Step 3: Sell off the national parks to the billionaires.
Step 4: Lawsuits, protests
Step 5: "Oh look it's an election year! What were we upset about again?"

Our only hope is that a lot of these crooks are super, SUPER dumb.

@mattblaze Serious shithole-country vibes.

@mattblaze I would not mind it if they were doing this as a way of further protecting the parks, something along the lines of crop rotation where you let a field lie fallow every few years.

But we know that's not the reason. They're going to mine it, clear cut, kill the predators, and destroy the habitat.

One more act of horrifying evil from this administration.

@mattblaze I don’t think this will impact tourism because we’ve done our best to discourage any sane person from visiting the USA.

@mattblaze ...a terrible, stupid idea....

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Well...not surprising for a man who was in the tourism business yet still managed to go bankrupt seven times.

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So. Ehm. One question:

Why should I plan my vacation in the US?
Honestly! Why?
I have to pay 250 on top only to get a visa. And then I have to fear to be sent into a detention center because someone of ICE doesn't like my socks color. And if I like to visit something I have to pay another 250 bugs.
So.. why should I even mention to spent my money in the USA?

@mattblaze Ehh, right offhand, this would mean we should plan to prove whether we are citizens to get in ?

@mattblaze This is also unclear. Some parks, if you don't have the annual, you pay entrance for a day and at others entrance fee is good for 3 days to a week. Is this saying a family of four from China will pay $400 extra or maybe $1200 for their long weekend in Yosemite? Because the former may not deter many but the latter would.

@mattblaze Chinese in tour buses are a major source of Yellowstone National Park revenue. This fee increase may change that.

A lot of other foreigners visit, but in smaller groups.

@mattblaze And what's the overhead involved in ascertaining someone's citizen status? Does it even out? I doubt it.

@mattblaze Ah—“America’s best idea”, but only for Americans. Idiots.

@mattblaze Interestingly, India has done this for a long time, where residents and citizens pay a lower fee for things than foreign folks.