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Just what the world needs: another proposal to level the field by taxing air travel:
G8 wants tax on airline tickets to help world poorThis is indeed a 1-lb bag of Cricket Crap from Dicker & Dicker of Beaverly Hills.Airline groups have condemned plans by the world's richest countries to impose a tax on airline tickets to fund extra money for poor African countries - and make a gesture towards fighting climate change.
Finance ministers from the G8 agreed at the weekend to look at using income from airline traffic to boost aid.
Although the tax might only amount to a few extra pence on a ticket, experts believe the move would be a major blow to cut-price airlines that sell tickets for as little as £1.
The move, which could add a pound on to air fares, was greeted with delight by environmental groups who said it was a first step towards making people pay the true cost of plane travel.
It's not much of a added tax, but it's the principle behind it: tax everyone who has money to pay for Africa's problems.
I'm all for helping people and nations get on their feet - not for making them take responsibility for their actions and/or inactions that put them there in the first place.
I get a chuckle out of these plans that propose to tax everyone who's responsible to pay for those that are not. Socialism in action....
You mean it's not the $150.00 dog statue ;)
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You want to help africa? cut ALL aid.
|| Posted by Yogimus, June 13, 2005 05:18 PM ||You mean it's not the $150.00 dog statue ;)
|| Posted by caltechgirl, June 13, 2005 08:45 PM ||