> That's only because your community refuses to tax the visitors.
no, that's because they come here with a tourist permit and hide from authorities.
And if some problem arise, they go crying to their embassy.
> then they are in fact paying taxes (or paying locals -- skipping the government middle-person) to the community.
you mean they are skipping the community by paying some greedy multi-building-owner-speculator or mega-supermarket-chain and not giving back to the community in the form of taxes that pay for: hospitals, schools, police, roads, road cleaning, etc. etc.
You know, everything is public here, taxes pay for it, no matter if you're rich or poor, you get the same medical care here.
That's why we don't want them.
They completely disregard what's important for us, which is giving back to the people, not to the rich.
I've seen many of these people complaining that in the city center there are homeless living close to the historical monuments, while we people living in those neighborhoods have know them forever, they are part of the community, we give them food, shelter, blanket for the winter, call an ambulance if they are sick or it rained too much and they don't know where to spend the night.
That's the difference and what people like you don't and won't ever understand.
We are different from you, but you're coming to our house, so you are the ones that should adapt, not us!
> "Earlier this year, a report by the president of Rome’s Appeals Court, Giorgio Santacroce, found that criminal organizations essentially have divided up the capital into areas under their control."
Lol, you don't even know what you're talking about! [1]
He's been acquitted for that murder.
And you are comparing an homeless with mental health problems with 2 rich American students on holiday who *stabbed to death an Italian POLICE OFFICER WHILE BUYING COCAINE ON THE SREETS* ...
That says a lot about what you think about Americans, LOL.
Now compare it this, "Italian student was stabbed to death Thursday evening not far from the campus of the elite New York university, the dean said Friday."[2] ot to this "Twenty people were killed when a United States Marine Corps EA-6B Prowler aircraft, flying too low and against regulations, in order for the pilots to "have fun" and "take videos of the scenery", cut a cable supporting a cable car of an aerial lift" [3]
In the meantime, in NY there have been 485 homicides in 2021, in the whole Italy, 59 million of people, "only" 276.
We don't want that violent behaviour here.
Get over it.
[1] https://www.ansa.it/english/news/general_news/2020/12/02/hom...
[2] https://www.ansa.it/english/news/general_news/2021/12/03/col...
[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1998_Cavalese_cable_car_crash