Because in France ecofascism is becoming the #1 religion thanks to leftist propaganda. Government uses that to increase taxes.
France to tax flights from its airports, airline shares fall
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Re: France to tax flights from its airports, airline shares fall
#22I think there is this thing called the train.
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#23Earlier quoted context omitted.
Tbh, I like it - only 25% of the population flies, and it's the top tier (mostly). My biggest problem is it's so low. 1.5/3 Euro for EU/non-EU travel.
And that sucks. More freedom is good. More taxing won't help more people travel. That is, of course, the intention here. But that's not a solution, its pretty regressive.
Negative externalities suck worse, especially when they are destroying our planet.
Assuming you have a $150 ticket, this would be 1% of the cost, and seems unlikely to change behavior.
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#24I think there is this thing called the train.
Immigrants cant train to algeria
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#25I don't really understand what the purpose of this tax is. There's no alternative to burning fuel by energy density on an airline, so why go after flights? What do they expect them to do? If you're taxing petrol cars you'd expect electric cars to become more economically viable. Either way I disagree with carbon taxes. They're regressive, and ignore the fact that regular people are being badly hurt by them whereas th…
I think they expect people to fly less; similar to many other “sin” taxes like those on alcohol or tobacco.
What's the alternative to flying?
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#26Not sure why the title was edited. The article mentions both domestic and international flights.
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#27Because in France ecofascism is becoming the #1 religion thanks to leftist propaganda. Government uses that to increase taxes.
Do you have a working definition of fascism here or are you using it as something closer to "a bad politics thing"?
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#28Because in France ecofascism is becoming the #1 religion thanks to leftist propaganda. Government uses that to increase taxes.
Please, allow me to ask you, how this bold statement contributes to this conversation?
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#29It's nice how you can rename any tax to an "eco tax" and suddenly everyone's delighted. Kudos for the social engineering. (there is absolutely no indication that this will somehow help the environment. I 'm heavily against flying , but i m also appalled by the level of gullibility here)
Ecology is a new religion, except instead of Apocalypse they have Global Warming, and instead of sin they have "carbon footprint".
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#30I think there is this thing called the train.
Specifically in France the train has a near-zero carbon footprint, because it's electric, and the electricity comes from nuclear power.