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2009-06-08 International-UN-NGOs

Levy on international air travel could fund climate change fight

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Posted by Steve White 2009-06-08 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11125 views ] Top

#1 Bernie Madoff was a rank amateur.

Posted by DMFD 2009-06-08 00:02|| 2009-06-08 00:02|| Front Page Top

#2 How about a several hundred percent tax for travel to the crap holes of the world? It could for ransoms, hostage rescue teams, and funeral expenses.

Posted by ed 2009-06-08 00:35|| 2009-06-08 00:35|| Front Page Top

#3 Why do I get the feeling that this will end up as a Levy on commercial air travel - and Private Jets will be exempt.

Posted by CrazyFool 2009-06-08 00:59|| 2009-06-08 00:59|| Front Page Top

#4 In this brave new world: There are peasants, and there are gentry---and the peasants spend way too much on themvelves, instead of supporting their betters.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2009-06-08 03:33|| 2009-06-08 03:33|| Front Page Top

#5 innovative ideas could generate a lot of money
Crooks are indeed imaginative. If there's money, they'll find a way to tap it.

Posted by Blackbeard">Blackbeard 2009-06-08 08:41|| 2009-06-08 08:41|| Front Page Top

#6 First tell me what al gore did to fight global warming with the millions he has gained, what was the net results to stop "global warming", and then maybe just maybe I will think about paying this fee (NOT). Poor Bernie he was robbing the wrong people.

Posted by Cyber Sarge 2009-06-08 08:59|| 2009-06-08 08:59|| Front Page Top

#7 asked to accept a compulsory levy. Rather cheeky of them but at least they asked. Even if it is compulsory. What if everyone said NO?

Posted by Deacon Blues 2009-06-08 12:21|| 2009-06-08 12:21|| Front Page Top

#8 Great sleight-of-hand in this article. A surcharge on shipping fuel? You mean the bunker oil that moves oceanic shipping? How many billions of gallons are used in that yearly? A tax on the fuel used to ship fuel? This should be in the "Bezzle" section.

Posted by Anguper Hupomosing9418 2009-06-08 12:38|| 2009-06-08 12:38|| Front Page Top

#9 Notice that the first thing that the bureaucrats do is to charge a tax. There is not a rigorous study made on cost/benefit. Politicians in charge, with a few stooge scientists. Nothing but tax-tax-tax. The fox has indeed taken over the chicken coop.

Posted by Alaska Paul at Mare Island, CA 2009-06-08 12:58|| 2009-06-08 12:58|| Front Page Top

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