St. Maarten Private Eye

I am sorry, but for any Government to require an individual business or person to X amount of money sounds like a dictatorship regime. How can the Government predict what the revenue and tourism will be like, let's say a year from now. Is the Government trying to play Miss Cleo (A fake psychic). I have been to many places in the World and I have yet to see a Government require any of it's people to make a certain amount of money. Wouldn't the proper way be to make sure that the person is self sufficient and that Government does not have to support them?, after all those that are not Citizens have been paying for their passage back to where they came from and has anyone ever received a refund? and of course what happen to all that money that Government has collected from the foreigner (I hate that terminology), becuse at one time or another, each and every child on Sint Maarten including those that were born there were at one time products of a foreigner one way or another.

For some reasone or another the Government of Sint Maarten is obsessed with thinking that they are equivalent to the Municipality of Monte Carlo, perhaps they should take a vacation to someplace that is classy and truly upscale. I am sorry, I love Sint Maarten but until they control crime and the safety of tourism, it should not attempt such restrictions on ones income if they do, then why not have an income requirement to set foot on the Island as a toruist, particularlly the Carinival Cuise Ship client that normally do not have enough money to piss in a pot, the majority go back to the ship for Lunch instead of spending something on our beautful Boardwalk restaurants or any other restaurants for that matter..

I am off Island at the moment being treated for Ilnesses otherwise I would love to attend the Chamber meeting.

Just my thoughts!