Private jets are awful for the climate. It’s time to tax the rich who fly in them | US Senator Edward J Markey
Private jets are awful for the climate. It’s time to tax the rich who fly in them | US Senator Edward J Markey
Private flights pollute up to 14 times more than commercial ones – yet are taxed less. Let’s change that
We definitely should. Fucking good luck actually getting this across the line though.
56Would 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.
42Let'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
29Maybe banning is a bit extreme, but we can leverage virtual meetings more for those that need these in person meetings, and maybe permit X amount of personal flights per day/month among all private jet owners or something.
Sadly these things take time, time which I'm not sure we have as a luxury anymore.
-3Eh, if you can afford a private jet you can more than afford last minute first class flights anywhere. The rich have plenty of other less destructive luxuries at their disposal, I have a hard time feeling sorry for them if they can't fly their private jet whenever and wherever they like. It's time we start treating the wealthy like normal people instead of allowing them to exert their power and privilege to our demise
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"Tax the rich". This just won't happen.
15Yeah it happens all the time. They tax them more, the people go yay, they then use a new loophole. Probably one they introduced in the same bill. When you can buy your policies you're never gonna be caught up in all this tax shit.
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*Coughs Taylor Swift Cough
14Clarence Thomas says that the constitution doesn't give the government the right to regulate private jets.
10Read: rich people are above the law
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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.
8Sure, 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!
6This is what I tell everyone. By the time you arrive at the airport. Go through security. Wait on the plane, then reverse that when you land, there's a lot of added time there.
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How bout we ban them and force everyone to use normal airlines like everyone else
6I'm all for taxing and regulating the hell out of these totally unneeded luxuries, but air travel is 2% of global emissions, and private jets are 2% of that. They are a pure luxury, and so are a good target for emissions reduction, but this would be just one of hundreds of similarly-sized initiatives needed to move the needle at this point. It's also not a "soft target" since we'd have to take something away from the rich that they like, which costs a lot of time and political capital that then can't be used elsewhere, perhaps to greater impact.
5Political capital is more like muscle than a one-shot battery: it gets stronger when you use it in ways that have public support.
7Point well taken, but I'd say getting the US Congress to agree to things that inconvenience the rich might be an exception. I really wish we could get the ball rolling on that in a self-sustaining, self-amplifying way that compounded to larger and larger changes and more and more public support. But that just isn't how my government has worked in my lifetime in my experience.
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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
3Stop 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.
3Some people aren't subbed to all communities so there's benefit to reposting the same article to multiple communities.
15Why 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
9I checked and I only see one cross post of this article from OP?
3Go whine to the devs for including a crosspost functionality.
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Time for a capita tax.
3Lets tax them $1.00 for their first private flight, $2.00 for their second, $4.00 for their third and so on.
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