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You can tax air travel to encourage travel by other means where applicable, or alternatives for work trips, or local tourism, or slow tourism, all kinds of thin
by morsch 4y ago
You can tax air travel to encourage travel by other means where applicable, or alternatives for work trips, or local tourism, or slow tourism, all kinds of things. Air travel itself may be defining and I don't envision getting rid of it; but the weekend trip to Vegas or Mallorca or Delhi is a defining feature of the present that is not sustainable in the future.
Taxing dirty electricity generation is regressive taxation, too; like I said, it's an original issue. A first step would be to pay out all the generated carbon taxes on a per capita basis.
- toma_caliente 4y ago> You can tax air travel to encourage travel by other means where applicable. This would never happen in America because it would require Americans addressing their views on transit and addressing their pitiful consumer rail or even consumer bus industries.
- uoaei 4y agoInflation and corporate profiteering re: oil prices are having much the same effect anyway.
- toma_caliente 4y agoIs it? I see one side blaming Biden and the other side blaming corporations but neither side is saying we need better public transit.