France to tax flights from its airports, airline shares fall

Re:France to tax flights from its airports, airline shares fall by hayd on Tuesday July 09, 2019 @02:18PM (#20394962)

"Start with yourself"

And this doesn't address that, it just attempts to price the poor out of flying... Awesome stuff.

This will have zero impact on the affluent, we'll continue to fly whenever and wherever we want.

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Re:France to tax flights from its airports, airline shares fall by isostatic on Tuesday July 09, 2019 @02:33PM (#20395140)

And the amount of money raised can then be spent on cleaning up the externalities.

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Re:France to tax flights from its airports, airline shares fall by hayd on Wednesday July 10, 2019 @03:41AM (#20399923)

I am very uncomfortable pricing the poor out of things. That's the fundamental issue with sin taxes like this.

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Re:France to tax flights from its airports, airline shares fall by isostatic on Wednesday July 10, 2019 @04:19AM (#20400109)

If you want to help the poor then redistribute wealth, don’t allow people to destroy the planet.

A carbon tax could be used for a UBI, or for electric car subsidies, or for negative income tax

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