What they don’t tell you is that we still get many more times the tourist dollars of any other nation on the planet.
What I say is...who gives a rats a$$ about tourists? Give us more jobs dammit! Drill for oil and bring back our manufacturing. Then ramp up our space program. We can put tourists on the freaking moon.
If the USA wanted to do that the Pres could repeal the 1967 UN Outer Space Treaty and open a Land Office for recording entry and mining claims on the moon and elsewhere. But, the USA doesn't want private enterprise that uses space resources except under contract to NASA.