You're Paying for Billionaires' Private Jet Travel. Here's How.
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- Every time Taylor Swift, Kim Kardashian, or Elon Musk take a trip on their private jet, you’re subsidizing it. Private jets make up one in six flights. But they contribute just 2% of the taxes to fund airports-while we pay 70%. It’s time to end that billionaire tax break.
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Yet teachers have to dip in their private finances to buy school supplies
Sadly, that's the case here in Canada as well. Even with public unions in a majority of jurisdictions representing teachers.
For 20 years, I did JUST that. 💔 We need to do a better job. 😢
And they are paid nothing
There’s a lot of things that don’t make sense in this accursed world
they dont work much
Socialism for the rich, rugged individualism for the poor.
It's called corporate fascism.
@@6thfaceit's called capitalism my bro
@@igku8339 Been going on since the foundation of this country.
Bootstraps!!!
Did you make the mistake of not being born into a wealthy family? That's on you.
Won't somebody think of the billionaires!
@@6thfacefascism is capitalism in decay
Kylie taking a private jet to skip traffic is peak privilege. Meanwhile people that make minimum wage can’t even afford to live. I can’t believe this is the world we’re forced to live in.
Newsflash kylie isn't holding you or anyone back from working..its not her problem you can't afford to live..stop blaming otheyfor your failures
@@SoloKasivaSurely, she is a symptom of a greater problem. While I agree Kylie doesn’t have a direct impact in anyone’s struggling life, the system that substantially benefits her leaves everyone else with nothing. To a larger extent, these institutions need to be reviewed and wealth needs to be redistributed so that the poor, working poor, and barely middle class are elevated.
@@brycecooley7017idolatry
The reason Kylie can do that is because of minimum wage morons who make her rich.
@@SoloKasiva did you watch or understand the video? Doesn't sound like it. The point is that rich people's excess is getting subsidized by the rest of us. Endless tax breaks and tax code loopholes to avoid contributing to society, legislative fuckery to open the door to lobbyists, and rig the game in their favour, red-lining, the criminal-industrial complex and many other sociological apparati to prevent marginalized people from getting a foothold to improve their lives, the list goes on and on. Kylie Jenner and Kim Kardashian are utterly useless people. They are famous and rich just for being famous and rich. Their existance is pointless. - they have a net-negative value on society. It's beyond dumb that poor people berate other poor people in defense of these stupidly rich leeches
actually taxes is one of the strongest tools to redistribute wealth..... American Politicians are just mostly spineless
Easy answer is that the politicians work in the interests of the capitalist class. I am talking about both political parties.
@@JohnT.4321 hints why they have no spine
@@PeterFnPorker They have a spine when working in the interest of the capitalist class. We just get lips service and a few crumbs.
They've also successfully conned the regular American people into thinking taxes are the equivalence of theft and are morally evil. I wonder if these people ever wonder why we are the richest country on earth, the highest GDP, yet 60% of americans live paycheck-to-paycheck.
Corruption is not spinelessness. They know that you have to vote blue or red so why would they care about you ?
But if you raise taxes on private jets, fewer people will have private jets! Is that what you want?
Yes, obviously.
I hope they switch to First Class - I will happily stay in Coach - away from them!
But that's not an American ideal, they're free to buy those jets if they have the money to do so. If you wanna buy a plane, buy a plane. The issue is with how easy it is for these people to game the system, put the heavy lifting of keeping society functioning on everyone but them, while they simultaneously own most of the wealth in that society and largely control how its economy functions. How does someone who's in their 30s afford a $70M jet while everyone else struggles to put gas in their car and pay for groceries? Why do we idiolize people that wouldn't give the rest of us the time of day and better yet would sell you down the river for a quarter? The solution is not social/economic control, it is making sure everyone has a fair opportunity, that there is no aristocracy. The government shouldn't be the one dissuading you from buying a car, house, building, etc. That's a social issue. If you want to dissuade people from buying private jets, we have to stop looking at that as a sign of someone who is successful. Its a plane, not a status symbol. The government should ensure you dont have too much personal/economic power and that your blind ambition to be rich doesn't infringe on everyone else's rights to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. People that can afford these jets routinely do infringe on those rights and they have enough economic power to bend the rules to where very little gets in their way of doing so. If you can afford a private jet by building quality houses at a reasonable price, with ethically sourced materials, proper permits and taxes, and paying your workers a good wage and providing them a good, safe, caring work lifestyle where they can prosper, all while not purposely driving smaller contractors of out business to establish a monopoly then be my guest 🤷♂️ but guess would be you couldn't
@@zacmurphy9867air travel is much more polluting/damaging to atmosphere than ground travel, so we all should all fly less and do more zoom meetings.. The landing fee could also increased to make the rich pay a fairer portion which could Perhaps pay for better air traffic control as well as clean air iniatives.
@@joeljong931 Sure it's more polluting, I never said it wasn't. But you can't force people to do that. Yes that's what we should do but that's the social aspect, you have to change the perception that that's the epitome of success to have a $70M jet that you take to business meetings sometimes 30 minutes away. Social concepts like that are 100% debatable and that's the way it should be in the land of the free. What you shouldn't be able to do is have your cake and eat it too, where you cheat the system to buy said jet, and the system rewards you by making it cheaper and more accessible to fly your jet frivolously while the rest of your countrymen pay the price. If you can afford even a $15M jet, unless you're a charter pilot and own the plane to do that business, you shouldn't be concerned at all about paying your fair share for using the publicly funded airport and contributing to climate change/air quality issues, and even the charter pilot should pay of course, but as a business instead of an individual. Nothing in the private aviation sector should be subsidized in my opinion and that includes the airlines, they're a business just like everyone else. If I have to pay for a ticket to fly, why should I also be essentially paying all year round every year to give the airline breaks on slots, hanger fees, maintenance, inspections, fuel etc etc? Those funds should go directly to maintaining the airport and its staff and nothing else
There's only one source for the wealth of rich people:
Hard work...ing poor people.
^^^
Exactly
If we can not unite to take away the rich people's power from them because there is nothing we can do to choose how the country spends our taxes, then we have failed as a nation...😭and I am all against that. I do not want to be a powerless average citizen! We have to stand united if we want our work to pay for us and not for them! 😢Should I become the next Adolf Hitler to wage World War 3 against rich people and oligarchies? Because I want us to come to a far more peaceful solution than that.
I see what you did. Clever!
Just like in CA where billions unaccounted for after edit to actually help the "unhouse".
It’s clear the taxes should be based on the vehicles and fuel consumption, not the number of passengers. I’m shocked that’s not already the case, but I guess I shouldn’t be surprised at all.
Fuel taxes are per gallon.
Plus, landing fees are harsh at large airports, that's why Kim and others fly to smaller airports.
"We" subsidize nothing.
You know why SUVs exist? Ron Reagan changed vehicle classes so that pickup trucks became cars. Then, all emissions standards were changed (increased) to accommodate the trucks. Yep. Republicans
@@MarcPaganyou didn't watch the video. The landing taxes are to recover where the most costs occur.
@@MarcPaganand pay close attention. We subsidize everything. The oil industry recieved $1T in subsidies in 2022 despite their record profits in the 100s of billions.
Yes, and how much did the lose prior?
How much have they paid back?
Consider that in the past 10 years, major oil and gas companies suffered tremendous losses in 2014, 2015, and 2020.
In fact, in 2020 the five integrated supermajors (i.e., “Big Oil”) - ExxonMobil, BP, Shell, Chevron, and Total - lost $76 billion
@@Ratboy2004
This bill doesn't stand a chance of passing as long as the citizens united decision is still in effect Things will only continue to get worse and worse until citizens united is repealed.
we citizens seriously need to unite to end citizens united.
How would you go about repealing Citizens United given that Citizens United is in effect? Wouldn't any efforts to pass legislation to repeal it ALSO be wing-clipped by lobbying?
cu won't be repealed until CENSORED BY CZcams GESTAPO
It has no chance of even getting out of committee. The idea is fine, but party control will prevent it from ever being more than a campaign tool for Markey, Velazquez, and Nydia.
And repeal Buckley v. Valeo. And _end_ the federal reserve.
Point is that in many sectors, billionaires pay dramatically less than average citizens in taxes or fees which support the infrastructure we use very day. Roads, airports, air traffic controllers, hospitals, and more. At the same time, they disproportionately use these resources, (for example, airports and highways) and dump tons of pollution into the atmosphere and waterways. Which they don't pay for - you do.
rich people always pay less. they get bulk discounts, they get tons of stuff offered for free because people want their business. big businesses can always negotiate lower prices, despite not needed them as much. they get tax breaks from cities that want them to stay there. the entire system is just built to benefit rich people the most at the expense of regular citizens.
In the state of Texas if you hire a felon the company receives a $20,000 tax write-off for each year the felon is employed with the company. Not just one year but every year they are employed. The company I work for never hired felons or people without a high school diploma but here we are today with a good 80% of the employees are felons. I've been trying to get my son on for 3 years and they keep saying they're not hiring and the same department I work in. In that 3 years we have hired over 50 new people each were felons. But they keep saying they're not hiring😂😂😂. He's not a felon and neither am I I just started before Texas past this or I would not have had the opportunity to work there either.
Also where I work I make 40,000 a year which means the company only pays 20,000 for felons and the rest of us pay the other 20,000 with our taxes that the company is not paying. And they say crime doesn't pay. It might not for the felons but it sure does for the companies they work for.
@@youtubecommercialsareascam8495 The only people who say, "Crime doesn't pay" are criminals. And the only people who believe it are fools. Crime is the bedrock of American Enterprise and always has been.
The difference between the convict that was locked up for decades and the ruling class is that the convict, either didn't steal enough, or stole from the ruling class.
Yes, the rich are on welfare and the Republicans are vehemently oppose UBI. America was making loans all over the world during the great depression.
It's impossible to "steal" from rich people by the definition of the word.
Taking back what's been taken from you is not stealing.
That's what Robin Hood was trying to make us understand, all those centuries ago...
The only way this will stop is if people stop buying anything that is endorsed by a self absorbed celebrity, and stop watching/listening to/reading about them...There are much better things to spend one's money on...
Tax the rich 97%.
@@clawscrab3497...... Nope.
Your still funding the oliarchy in this manner.
Reduce, re-use, share, and buld together.
Did you know you can make the most powerful style of microscope, a Scanning Tunneling Microscope (STM) and see actual atoms with those stupid annying "speaking" novelty cards, a tiny peice of tungston (very cheaply avalible used to be in light bulbs) and otherwise random would be trash and of course your computer?
You can do it, and see atoms for yourself. ATOMS. probably could move them one at a time as well, IDK for sure.
Did you know you can make all the little electronics in your computers using a stamp? Yup. not all stamp materials can do it, but some are capable of stamping down to nano meter ranges.
Wow. I just gave away the pathway that a small group of hobbiests could. IDK.. just make thier own computers.
You can also make your own cars. youd have to copy older cars generally ones considered antique, and use electric motors.
But you can. And generally can for less then buying a used car. Especially if its a junk yard special.
And you defenitly can do it. You most certianly have the base skills to pull it off, with friends.
This is why children should not have to pay their lunch money to school bus drivers when they need fuel. That was just an alarmist joke in The School Bus Driver from the Black Lagoon. School districts that have a decent level of funding will give school bus drivers the money they need to buy gas for their school bus.
I am firm believer that influencers, celebraties and politicians need higher taxes.
And churches!!!!!
lets simplify that sentence: the wealthy need higher taxes
We straight up need to set an income cap, and tax capital gains and loans issued from stocks.
@@Denise_Suzanne Definitely churches. Especially how easy for become a "church". Also, the churches are being used for political purposes including fund raising
@@SplinterInYourEye That might be a bit too far but the taxes need to be steeper the more you earn
Private plane owners using planes for business which is most also get to depreciate the plane, deduct operating expenses, fuel, crew, etc. so you could say taxpayers are subsidizing ownership as well. We also subsidize coach, business class, and first-class business travelers as well since they deduct their travel costs.
Smart.
Conservative brainlets will say it's good that we do because it's trickle down economics. You can't make this kind of cuckholdry up!
They get to do this, and China gets to have as many coal plants as they want, but the environmentalists are busy demonizing cow farts and making us eat bugs.
I was gonna make a comment like this. Though between riding business on a CRJ or riding in the back of a surplus T-38 TSwift would probably prefer the former.
"The problem is that we all to often have socialism for the rich and rugged free enterprise capitalism for the poor."
-Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
I knew there was a reason I couldn't stand this family.
When I heard about some of the controversial things this family has been in the headlines for over the years and was watching TV one day, I knew that day full well the Kardashians were always paying little tax and that there was something wrong systemically. The corporate media across the globe hasn't even bat so much as even an eye about this, not even in 2020 when financial situations started getting trickier for many.
True, but don’t just pick on them, there’s hundreds more that do the exact same thing.
@@ds7675Exactly about 700+ families.
There are so many reasons.
Yes and that reason is jealous 🙄...i am embrassed on your behalf.. imaging hating someone for been rich than your generation
With each video MPU releases the more I realize how ass backwards our society is
😭If our unions can do nothing to solve these problems, then our country has failed as a society...possibly forever. I am too depressed to try enacting positive change anymore. The bad always cheats to make the good less powerful and exert more control and abuse over us.
Those private elitist planes fly over my working class neighborhood and house 24/7. I am woke up by their blasting noise. My house, car and even the flowers are coated in greasy black soot.
I scrub my house with dawn dish soap, just to get it off.
Wonder what all that crap is doing to my lungs?
that "soot" is lead dust, they haven't outlawed leaded fuel for aviation use
yup, lead is cancerous to living creatures but since it makes the planes fly cheaply, fuck the world!@@clarabisson7299
I don't want to subside fuel. This includes gas and diesel. Rich people in their super cars and conservatives in their trucks need to pay for the real price of energy along with Amazon delivery and FedEx.
Private jets should be outlawed😤 I’d love to see a video on the self-made millionaire myth.
You won't because it's not a myth
If you honestly think that there’s no such thing as a self-made millionaire, then you’re a sad, sad person.
@@Laotzu.Goldbug I agree. You CAN be a self-made millionaire, but the problem is many people who claim they are self-made aren't. Ditto for billionaires: Swift, Musk, Bezos, the Kardashian-Jenners ... all products of generational wealth.
Every billionaire is a raft of policy failures
And a parasite on the rest of us.
This makes me wonder how many fuel emissions from our politicians flying around the world creates.
Ever since video conferencing became reliable enough for business use, flying just to attend meetings has become no longer necessary. People who still do it are probably trying to make an impression or satisfy their own vanity...
@InventorZahran anything connected to the internet can be hacked in real time if the right person wants to. Only a fool would conduct secretive business over the internet.
Why are taxpayers subsidizing multimillion, billion and trillion dollar corporations?.😮 That is insane!.
It’s called “neoliberalism” and got popular in this country starting with Reagan (yes, I said that right, Google it). Every president after him has also passed neoliberal laws to help the wealthy and corporations, yes even Obama and Biden (it was just on Democracy Now! this morning that Biden has approved more fossil fuel permits than Trump).
Short answer: we live under state capitalism. Longer answer: the modern nation state developed a few hundred years ago to serve the needs of the upper class. It's basically doing what it was built to do by taking money from the poor and giving it to the rich. The difference between our current system and the feudalist system that preceded it is that the nation state does a better job of convincing poor people that their interests align with those of the ruling class (through a shared national identity) and of concealing the real source of the violence it uses (think criminalizing unemployed people through taxes, iteneracy laws, loitering laws, etc.). Basically, the state itself is a tool used by the ultra wealthy. The state pacifies the public by staging elections that result in no fundamental changes to the system and by passing laws that prevent resistance boiling over into outright revolution, but at the end of the day they're doing it to maintain the status quo. So labor legislation comes in waves. The Reagan administration was a blow to earlier labor movements for sure, but its hardly the sole cause.
@@missc2742 Pretty much spot on. Thank you for doing the work.
I like Taylor Swift, but I'll be damned if I'll let *any* celebrity virtue signal to me about the environment.
That's based, Senator Markey, thank you.
They all owe America a refund. They clearly don't care about all the people living on the streets in this country.
I would like my refund in blood.
@@ohiasdxfcghbljokasdjhnfvaw4ehr Cool the edge there amigo; I'd sooner have something I can actually benefit from, like reduced taxes.
@@Attaxalotl Quell all fascists.
We don't need billionaires, but they need us.
they need you to shut up and work harder
What isn't "subsidized" for the rich??
Yet the working class can only wish for such subsidies.. ijs.. 💯
My employer pays for all employees to go to Oktoberfest, while salaries are above average and people obviously can afford it. However trades professions or others in low paying jobs, they will never get such perks
enjoy Oktoberfest while ya can!@@tatjana7008
"Lobbying" how they rebranded "bribing" ...... can you do a video on the origins of this
I know the first crack was in Buckley Vs. Velleo which was decades back, but far more people have heard of the Supreme Court ruling of Citizens United, which really opened the floodgates. It basically legalized bribery. If only more average people truly understood this system, we’d at least be able to actually TRY to address the problems that are hurting us all. Knowledge is power
Lobbying is a good and healthy thing and not something that is only done by rich executive. Whatever your political views are, whatever issues you are concerned about I guarantee there is at least one if not many groups lobbying on behalf of that. and it's root lobbying is merely applying influence or petitioning the government or politicians to do things.
If you stand for religious freedom, if you stand for animal rights, if you're interested in expanding or restricting abortion, if you're interested in education and so on there are plenty of lobbying groups. They write papers, press releases, news articles, call and send letters to politicians, organize public events and so on.
Because the term is so overused and abused out of context people think that lobbying is really just a euphemism for paying people under the table and that's it. in reality it describes an exceptionally wide range of activities of which financial compensation of any kind is only a portion. Bribery is a very narrow activity which just involves paying people to do what you want.
The origin of the term "lobbying" comes from the days of President Ulysses Grant who frequented the lobby of a hotel in Washington DC, where he liked to drink and smoke cigars and people who wanted to influences ideas or ask him to consider certain laws and policies would literally just show up there and talk to him (this is likely apocryphal but you get the idea)
This channel needs more viewers.
Asking a rich man to pay their fair share, is like asking a clear sky to rain!
They will always get away with that, I'm just fully disappointed in world now
Also airport takeoff and landing fees matter too. They are most expensive at large commercial airports because those airports need the largest runways to accommodate large commercial planes. With private jets being smaller and needing less runway, they typically fly out of smaller airports which need less maintenance, and as such, pay less (or occasionally no) takeoff and landing fees.
There’s also an overlooked problem with raising taxes on fuel at smaller airports, and that is private pilots (not celebs or corporate execs). Currently, American pilots have to pay for 250 flight hours on their own, which includes the fuel, renting the airplane, takeoff/landing fees, and more. This is already a difficult task, and raising these taxes and fees would make the already immense pilot shortage even worse.
Maybe we should make obtaining a career pilots license something people can get financial aid for, something that should be done for other skilled positions in which there is a shortage.
this is a really good point, thanks for sharing!
@@erinmac4750you can get financial aid. You pretty much have to be female or a minority to get aid.
@@michaellee6016 yeah that’s how some airlines run their flight academies. But most airlines have already offered financial aid in terms of their pilot academies to all
They said raising taxes on the fuel that the private planes are using. So companies that hire their planes out will add that cost onto the cost they charge the person hiring the plane. People who own the planes outright will have to pay the tax on how much fuel they burn during their flight. It is the people who own the planes that will pay the extra, not the airports. And how many private pilots have private jets to just fly around the country. The tax is based on fuel used, not fuel acquired.
we can literally already do that with the budget we put out for the military industrial complex
I think humiliating them at their gatherings is probably actually effective. Unlike large civic protests, petitions, phone calls to congress people, and so on.
Like Elon would be influenced to stop anything bad he does by public shaming. Not a chance
Hit 'em where it hurts: Their wallets and their egos.
@@Attaxalotl yeah especially those egos!
Air travel is one of those things where the oligarchs flaunt their privilege. Many airports where private jets land don't have TSA checkpoints, so any one of them could be moving actual national security threats while idiot federal agents have us get in a stupidly long line, take off our shoes, and use an invasive 3D scanner on us in the name of "national security". Furthermore, those smaller airports also don't have immigration agents, so any silver spoon who is a flight risk can fly to one of these landing strips in different country and get around extradition treaties.
It would be trivial to lock down those 2 massive security holes, but oh no, we can't inconvenience our political campaign contributors, nooooo.
What you're suggesting doesn't really make any sense. the tsa, and specifically airport security checkpoints that you pass through as a passenger, are not there to stop anything except security threats to the flight itself there that is people bringing on weapons or explosives or something like that. this is pretty irrelevant on a private plane because of someone wants to hijack destroy their own plane mid-flight than no amount of security checks would stop that, they are either flying the plane themselves or the pilot works for them. It would make about as much sense as having Security checks before people got into their own car so that they don't have any weapons they're going to use to take control of the car and then run over pedestrians. (I would also point out that in a purely practical sense the TSA is next to useless in terms of providing actual security, and is nothing more than security theater. as numerous repeated and consistent tests have shown, almost anyone with a little bit of skill and planning can bring through many dangerous items in an airport security checkpoint.)
@@Laotzu.Goldbug nobody suggested the checkpoints are pointless. The fact they exist vs none at all is the matter. You're really clueless to how many small private and rural airports smuggle drugs and people?... let alone the national security loopholes. Dont simp its tacky
@@-in-the-meantime...these smaller airports cannot service international flights, which are the most at risk for contraband
The rich have underground bunkers for when the environment is unlivable. It is the regular people who will suffer.
You should investigate the impact of churches not paying property taxes.
They already did that. Like literally years ago.
they should absolutely recieve no breaks. what happened to separation of church and state? also just like all other corporate entities, big religions get the biggest breaks, and new religions aren't allowed to be considered religions. it's a government funded monopoly and needs to be shut down.
Broke: complain about churches not paying taxes
Woke: become a church so you don't have to pay taxes
@@dvdv8197 time to rerun it
@@thewhitefalcon8539the woke toddler can see that churches are a scam. You don’t need to pay a tithe to be spiritual or have a sense of community.
Private jet is a luxury period. They should pay the same tax as average citizen at minimum. More is better if possible.
Mass public rail needs to be rapidly expanded in order to cut down on interstate air travel. China's continued improvment and expansion of their Maglev rail lines is a model that the U.S. must follow.
We don't need Maglev, almost all of Europe manages just fine with regular High-Speed Rail; and the continent is about the same size as the Lower 48.
Edit: We could have a denser system by going for HSR instead of Maglev; it's much more expensive for minimal improvement.
@@Attaxalotl For traveling from state to state I belive its necessary. Emissions from commercial airlines alone are an enormous detriment
I agree, especially in the highest population areas. This is not something that can be tackled by the private sector, it requires big government just like the interstate highway system did. I don't see any politician talking about it though.
Makes you sick, stop following them and do not buy their products
Exactly!
WE ARE SO STUPID!!!
I would say greatly uniformed.
TAX THE RICH FOR GOD'S SAKE! 😤😤
Both political parties are in service to the rich. So, they are not going to.
won't happen unless you make it happen
@@thewhitefalcon8539 Aa better term would be "we."
@@JohnT.4321 no, that's diffusion of responsibility. Someone has to make it happen. One person. Could be anyone here.
@@thewhitefalcon8539 Not really. We have to do it collectively rather than looking for a leader. That means organizing first and then electing leaders who would represent the interests of the people.
We must #EndCitizensUnited
THEN
Start #taxingtherich !!!
✊🏼✊🏽✊🏻⚖️🗽🇺🇸
Seems like a flat $1000 per trip usage fee would work here. Still be able to use business expense write-off and would more equitably share the cost for infrastructure.
Socialized wealth for the rich! Ruthless capitalism for the poor! Surely, this is the image of a healthy and stable society!
I dont know a single song by Taylor Swift, but when I found out sge gave $55 MILLION in bonuses to her employees and those on hwr tour, likw truck druvers and roadies, with most getting ovwr $100,000 in a bonus, i have a newfound respect for her.
If only we had train lines. You could even have a fancy ass train car idc. It’s more grounded that way (pun intended)
It doesn’t have to be spiteful or vengeful to simply ask these people to pay their fair share, and if they’re unfairly getting one over on everyone, then it should always be addressed, have your money but be a decent human and have some responsibility
Not at first it doesn't...But we've had to force them to do it a number of times throughout history and they always seem to swing things back towards servicing themselves over the needs of our entire species/only habitable planet.
@@treeaddict seems that way
@@matthewsanchez7953 yea it doesn’t appear they care too much. Embarrassing, the amount of selfish greee
Update: The National Business Aviation Association (which seems to be a lobbying organization) said
“If Congress wants to debate the amount of the fuel tax, that is its prerogative, *but we oppose efforts to unfairly single out one mode of transportation for punitive tax treatment*, especially for expenditures unrelated to investments in preserving our nation’s world-leading position in aviation.”
It's shocking how billionaires are so upset about being "singled out" for paying their fair share of taxes while the rest of the population suffers the effects of the climate disaster.
Ty for posting the update!
do as I say, not as I do! -> Richy Rich
This makes a strong case for grounding all private jet travel within our airspace. Would that we could ground all air travel, but people gotta have some other good options first. Trains please.
Let's see take a train that will take 2 to 3 days or longer to go cross country or fly for a few hours cross country.
And the train will stop a lot of times making a 3 day trip into a 4 day trip.
I will fly if I can.
A modern High speed train could go from LA to NYC in 10 hours, assuming it's a straight shot. If we properly subsidized an industry around building them, I'm certain the ingenuity of American engineers could get that travel time down even further. Not sure where you got your figure from but it's probably based on antiquated passenger train data, if not just pulled from the ether.
Plains are a blight on our environment, private jet travel especially, which is the focus of this video.
@TheLyricalWrdsmth that would never happen, the route would stop in every town on the route for a minute or two. Planes can run direct routes, trains rarely run a direct run due to the high cost of any rail project.
A magnev or hyperloop if it ever becomes possible could replace planes. Any train that runs on tracks will be limited in how fast it can go.
@@jonathanjones3126 It absolutely could happen. How unambitious of you. Maglev*
@TheLyricalWrdsmth the cost to build one maglev train line would extremely expensive, from buying the land off of unwilling people who can fight eminent domain for decades, planning, construction, maintenance, purchasing equipment/building new maintenance facilities, training new people to operate and maintain equipment. The cost to build a nationwide network would probably be in the 10s of trillions.
We give all of the money artists have directly to them.
When Kim brags about her plane, she's bragging to the very people who paid for it AND will never be on it.
What she gets, her owning company's investors get 10x more
Are you saying she's an "artist"?! Brand marketer, yes, artist, no.
My father-in-law regularly flies for work. He has a private plane but it's I think just like a two or three passenger one. I don't even know if it's a jet I think it's a prop plane. My mother-in-law got him flying lessons for Christmas one year and him, and her friend went in together and bought a plane. I don't know how much he actually flies in his private plane versus. I know he flies a lot on commercial planes. My daughter goes with her grandparents a lot overseas. And Work pays for a lot of his flights than the buy a ticket for my mother-in-law and my daughter now that my daughters above the age for the free tickets but my daughters gone with her grandparents for years when my father-in-law was going for work she was I believe like five or six when she started traveling. I don't know much about the subject, but I think they should pay a fee at least per plane if not per passenger if it's less than 20 passengers, make it like a certain amount and more make it like a per playing it can be less than us, but they should pay something.
Excellent points in this video. To honor Kim Kardashian slouching in her jet seat, they should call it the Fat Ass act. To cause any real effect at all, private jet fuel should be taxed to $20 per gallon, not $2 per gallon.
We currently pay more tax on a gallon of gas/fuel for our cars (83¢-$2+/gal) than private jet owners pay in tax for a gallon of jet fuel (22¢/gal). Commercial airliners pay more in gas tax than private jets. The reason: The people with the privatw jeys own many of the politicians making the laws, and in many instances, the politicians are the jet owners/users. It's the same reason we don't have tougher gun laws. The NRA and gun manufacturers have filled the campaign coffers of republicans making rhe laws (oe blocking the laws Democrays try to pass).
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ALL in on the FAT CAT ACT!! ...thank-you Sen. Ed Markey. ..& thank-you Abigail Disney, for blocking the entrance to a private airport in the Hamptons, this summer.
Abi is making the family look bad, heh.
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Bump that tax to $3.95/gallon
Private jets pay less than 2$ a gallon on jet fuel.....
A society where billionaires exist is a horribly-broken society.
They hate flying with the peasants but they can't fly without the peasants pockets.
Have ya watched any YT vids of Karen's goin' beserk on commercial aircraft in the past 5 yrs? The 4-8 hr delays just sitting on the tarmac unable to exit the aircraft?Dealing w/those nightmares are for the penny-pinching peasants who could've easily pooled their $$ & chartered a private jet, but made a conscious decision not to do that!
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They can afford at least $10 a gallon. They’re multi millionaires!
You know i think i like this senator :3 the smug look when he says “you’re grounded” is just great
The new tax for the climate destroyers should be calculated against what a full flight generates, at the bare minimum. I personally think it should be quadruple or even more, but we don't like things to make sense round these parts. No millionaire or billionaire cares about the rise from 22¢ to $1.95. That's like you and I having to pay five dollars more for a flight.
Jeff Bezos bought a super yacht for about the same percentage of his net worth^ as it would cost the average* Millennial˚ to buy a PS5
^This includes the massively inflated value of a house nowadays
*Mean average, not Median
˚This includes the techbros, bringing the Mean value up
An airliner is bigger than a private jet so it contributes *exponentially* more to wear and tear on the runway. It also needs the the complex baggage handling system, which private jets don't need.
What’s your point? You wanna see real money? Go calculate how much the oil industry gets subsidized for.
Huzzah! Recently learned this from a Today, Explained podcast ep - SO GLAD this topic is getting more attention!!!
Private flights should be taxed EXPONENTIALLY more than commercial ones. Thats 1-6 people pumping out as much as 200~ people while contributing nothing with those flights.
Thank God I haven’t been on a flight since January 2010.
It's been a while for me. I prefer to stay on the ground anyway
Flying is so stressful tbh, I’d only do it if I absolutely had to
These half measures piss me off. If you want to ban private jets, then do it
Love this channel, super informative and well thought out.
Per capita, private planes, employ much more people than us regular folks. And these are high, paying aviation and mechanical jobs.
Corruption is very low in the United States because we have legalized most of the corruption.
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Charter flights and air carrier flights are commercial operations and are subject to different taxes and fees than private. There is a 7.5% tax for passengers/ and a 6.25% tax for cargo federal excise tax on commercial flights. How would the tax be calculated when a private plane flies? There is a $4.30 segment fee charged to commercial customer's tickets so who would collect that from a private flight? There is a $5.60 fee for TSA security fee but private flights usually don't use TSA security. There are airport/ facility fee charge up to $19.00 but the private flights will normally pay a fee to the fixed base operator they park at plus airport landing fees if applicable.
Drink every time this senator says "fat cats"😂
Should be a 100 fold increase in cost at least. Economically you need to punish behavior that is dangerous to us all.
When you stand in the multi billion dollar airport after your flight, after departing from another multi billion dollar airport, you aren’t standing there with Taylor Swift. She’s landing at the private airport operator, who pays their lease to the airport on their much cheaper building from the fees they charge on fuel, on top of the airport taxes on fuel that go to the multi billion dollar airport you are standing in.
This thread is full of the uniformed, and those angry at their lack of success.
@@MarcPagan And at least one troll.
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I do hope that a tax increase will make more private jets go electric. I mean, the technology isn't quite there yet, but maybe it's just a lack of incentive, and this will speed things up.
Truly despicable. I don't even live in the US and can't relate to so many of the issues there, but this is a global issue. Even this proposed tax increase isn't enough, the costs of fixing climate change, will be incredibly expensive.
insanity
Even the "good" millionaire who who supposedly cares about his own carbon footprint is just selling his jet so some other millionaire can do the polluting instead.
Would you suggest he just dump it into the ocean?
@@Laotzu.Goldbug he could have recycled it
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1. Everyone know that recycling, even for small plastic bottles is literally a scam.
2. You can't "recycle" plane, but you can scrap it. However that involves spending money to destroy something perfectly workable. That's even more wasteful.
@@Laotzu.Goldbug aluminum recycling is real wtf are you talking about. And scrapping it would be one less plane polluting the airways.
@@somefunification a plane is made of more than just aluminum. The scrapping process is often very toxic.
More importantly you're making a very faulty assumption that whoever bought the plane from this guy, if they couldn't buy the plane, would just decide not to fly anymore. that's clearly not true. they would have bought a plane from someone else. and if they couldn't have bought a used one then they would have bought a new one. There would still be the same number of planes flying in the air, except now you would have to add in the environmental cost of producing a new one, and this guy's old plane just sitting there resting away doing nothing, or in some scrapping yard.
Either way it doesn't make sense. the supply is irrelevant. so long as there is a demand for planes they will be in the sky, wherever they have to be sourced from.
This obviously proves that that very few people have ever flown on a private airplane. Most, if not all private airplanes in the United States, they actually pay for parking, that contributes to the infrastructure of the airport. You don’t see people with their private jets pulling them in their garage at their house now do you? Of course not. It can cost a significant amount to park those private jets at regional airports or the larger international airports.
You can make the same argument for just about everything from public roads to restaurants and hotels to amusement parks and so many other things. We all contribute to some degree or another.
Ed Markey, Elizabeth Warren, Katie Porter, Corey Bush, Bernie Sanders, AOC, Pramila Jayapal, President Biden, Vice president Harris, and the Secretary of Transportation are the people in Washington we should write to about this.
Considering that most of Congress is rich with private jets, I'd say this is a non-starter for a new tax.
Do a similar video on yachts!
$2.8mil spent to avoid paying taxes… instead of just paying $2.8mil in taxes. 🤦🏽♂️
That’s the power of petty!
Politicians will always be under the control of big money
$2?
20.
It should REALLY hurt them. Our planet can’t afford for them to not pay more
This is insane
Celebs are used as the face of rich people since we like celebs. So for us to confront the rich we first and to confront our fav celebs and I'm glad you brought up Taylor swift and Kim k
TAX the 1% /billionaire class ALREADY!!!!! .. for cryin' out loud, wtf does it take?! .. STRIKING, BOYCOTTING, DIVESTING & SANCTIONING is generally how sh*t gets done ❤ 🙏🏽
..know what? When I read "quarterly", couldn't help but think of all the fat cats on Wall St. & their "quarterly projections", "quarterly profits" etc., etc. .. so like the idea of stickin' it to them every "quarterly period"..let's see how they factor that into their projections! lol ..cheers for sharing your thought(s), appreciate it :)@@lisamari941
We need to have a FAIR TAX SYSTEM!
IT'S JUST PLANE AND SIMPLE! 😤😤
It's not fair, the "rich" pay too much.
The top 10% earn 50% of all income,
yet pay 74% of all income taxes.
Explain how that is fair.
Time for a flat tax, if one makes above X$.
Too many have no skin in the game, and merely vote for perceived "free stuff", that productive people fund.
Tell that to congress as they’re the ones who have to change the tax laws.
duh they don't own a private Jet outright so yeah tax payers are footing the cost like their leased/rented Luxury cars
No some do own their own. Some rent them out.
Do the military industrial complex next!
Great facts and getting it out there!
Nobody will be grounded. Rich democrats won’t allow it. They just speak words that they care.
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at least they're pretending to represent our interests instead of blatantly supporting the billionaires and tricking us into thinking we want that too
1% of the population accounting for HALF of all aviation emissions is nuts
Great reporting! This needs to be reported in the MS media.
2:59 it’s the reason why us engineers, Boeing, and NASA are working on electric aircraft, I even met a test pilot during my NCAS internship who flown and showed us a plane that runs on electric motors.
Yess
While I usually agree with these videos there's a few points that got left out. Private flights don't put the wear and tear on commercial jets. They pay for their own fuel. They pay for their own insurance and fees. Oh and they paid for their own fucking jet and the maintenance that goes with it. So yeah it does make sense that they would pay less airline fees because they're paying more upfront and using their own jet.
in the name of the planet we live on, we should end all subsidies that pollute the ONLY world we live on.
It's actually worse than that. Many of the celebrities might be able to write off part or all of the cost of the private jet flight for tax purposes.
For example, going on vacation to Hawaii? Arrange to do photo shoots in Hawaii for your next album.
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