OK, I will agree with you on some of this for a change. You are right, I do not know how much extra there could be if all taxes were paid. I am only assuming that if I pay what I pay for my condo in taxes, the total tax role is not sufficient to meet the needs. And, before I come across as someone who comes here, pays for real estate that drives prices up where locals cannot afford to buy, and then complains that some of them are not paying their fair share when what I pay is 1 to 2% of what I would pay for like property in my own country, I prefer to look in the mirror and like what I see before I look to my neighbors.

Just think how this conversation would come across to a local reading it. Makes it pretty easy to see why "gringo" can have a negative connotation and where the term "ugly American" comes from.

Irregardless of what others pay or don't pay, I cannot in good faith be critical based on what I pay. I am not saying I have the answers. That is up to those that vote and those they vote into office. But, I will be surprised if an answer is ever found and it turns out I am not part of the problem based on my existing contribution by way of real estate tax. It is going to take a unified community willing to pay what needs to be paid to solve the problems. Not a community that looks to their neighbors to pay for what is needed.

AC has looked far too long for all of its needs to be paid for thru taxes on tourists or for sufficient funds to be returned by the GOB. It will kill tourism and leave AC having to invest and pay for the needs it did not do when it should have.