Would be great to aggressively and progressively tax every wasteful thing rich people do. Yachts. Third homes. Private jets.
If it’s something rich people do? Need to tell their lobbyists to STFU and double the tax rate on it.
Let’s ban them instead. If they’re poisoning our atmosphere so much and it’s purely for luxury/convenience then we shouldn’t have them at all
Wait. We don’t?
We do, just at a lower rate than flying on a commercial flight.
Socialism for the rich. Capitalism for the rest of us
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No, we should ban the usage of them. You do not need a private jet to conduct business, especially in the age of Zoom meetings.
Clarence Thomas says that the constitution doesn’t give the government the right to regulate private jets.
Read: rich people are above the law
Stop posting the same low effort stuff everywhere. Post on one instance/magazine/community and start an actual discussion. Why are you karma farming? This isn’t reddit.
Some people aren’t subbed to all communities so there’s benefit to reposting the same article to multiple communities.
Why are you angry someone wants to provide a conversation starter to multiple communities where its relevant? If you see something you’ve already read and you don’t want to read it again it takes less than a second to keep scrolling, or to change the sorting algorithm you’re using
Go whine to the devs for including a crosspost functionality.
I checked and I only see one cross post of this article from OP?
Time for a capita tax.
Sure, they don’t represent much compared to all flights people take just to go on vacation though…
Heck, your emissions are lower by driving to your destination with four passengers in a full sized truck or SUV than they are by having the same four passengers take a plane.
Consider the time wasted at the airport and if you’re traveling a distance that can be covered by car in a day you’re better off driving alone in a small car to get there.
Airplane manufacturers invest in anti emissions tech only to look good to authorities, none of it gets implemented in the end, might as well drive a car from the 80s on which the converter has never been changed, you’ll probably pollute less for the same distance travelled!
We definitely should. Fucking good luck actually getting this across the line though.
air travel for businesses should be made non-deductable on taxes. that will make companies think twice about weather or not that international meeting could have just been a zoom call
