• AmbitiousProcess (they/them)@piefed.social
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    • Tickets for flights are taxed at 7.5% to pay for the FAA
    • Average flight with many passengers pays over $2,300 per flight
    • Private jets don’t have tickets to be taxed, are only taxed on fuel
    • Private jets pay an average of about $60 in FAA fees
    • Private jets take up about 7% of the FAA’s resources, but only make up a fraction of a percent of the revenue
    • Thus when you pay the FAA fees on your economy class ticket, you’re subsidizing operating the FAA for private jet flights, that don’t pay enough to cover their costs.
    • Cruxifux@feddit.nl
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      2 days ago

      That’s. So. Fucked.

      Is shit like this doesnt radicalize you then you are lost as a human. Unsavablle.

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        My man… This bow everything into the US works.

        The peasants pay and the rich free ride. He wouldn’t be the big man if he had to pay… Would he now?

        If only the normie cared to accept these facts as their reality.

    • Zorque@lemmy.world
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      So not really the flights themselves, just the regulation overseeing the flights.