Driftdown is wrong if he believes that the tourist industry will NOT miss him. Noticed a plethora of advertisements on TV lately all saying what a great place the US is? Reason quite simply is that, like Driftdown, a large number of the SLF that used to enjoy a holiday in the States no longer regard it as being worth the hassle.
A great shame because the people there are fantastic and the service second to none.
In the long run financial pressures will always work better than any politician and at some time, hopefully in the not too distant future, sense will prevail. Before then of course we have to suffer the next hurdle, the need to have a biometric passport to gain entry.