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August 20, 2007
British Government Strives to Limit Air Travel to the Rich
Anyone who thinks global warming is harmless had better think again. The moonbats running Britain want use it as a pretext to impose deliberately excessive taxes on airline tickets.
The Department for Transportation wants to raise taxes on tickets by £13.50 per passenger, £27 for a round trip. That ought to put a righteous dent in the tourist industry.
From a DfT report:
Putting an appropriate price on carbon, through taxes, trading or regulation, means that people are faced with the full social cost of their actions. In the case of aviation, this means reflecting climate change costs in the price of air travel. If this is not done, prices will be too low and hence demand for a good or service too high to achieve a long-term sustainable outcome.
In other words, if they don't jack the taxes up high enough, proles will continue to avail themselves of air travel.
The liberal elitists who jet here and there preaching their climate change dogma won't notice the extra £27. But it's us little people who need to live more humbly to save Gaia and the polar bears.
This moonbattery has progressed to the point that it doesn't matter who you vote for:
While the Tories want to impose extra taxes on anyone taking more than one short-haul flight a year, the Liberal Democrats propose a £10 levy on domestic air travel and VAT on plane tickets.
One day you'll tell your grandchildren that once even normal people could fly.
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Brits could be seeing the tail end of affordable air travel. |
On a tip from V the K.
Posted by Van Helsing at August 20, 2007 8:33 PM
Comments
It is also an effective way to keep the overtaxed proles from leaving the country, particularly on an island country like the UK. The Chunnel will probably also be heavily taxed as well.
Posted by: James F McEnanly at August 21, 2007 5:00 AM
Putting an appropriate price on carbon, through taxes, trading or regulation, means that people are faced with the full social cost of their actions.
Just think what'll happen when they apply these ideas to electricity, food, and everything else. We do live in something like a fragil eco-system; it's referred to as the economy. You can only mess it it so much. As has been said: the dark ages were dark on principle.
Posted by: Kevin at August 21, 2007 5:52 AM
http://www.openvein.com/image/s/vforvendetta.jpg
^--until you people in the UK start acting like this, you will burn in your liberalism.
Posted by: furballz at August 21, 2007 12:02 PM
