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In their drive to ''save the planet'' by discouraging air travel, Gordon Brown's regime in London has a proposal out for another increase in departure taxes from the UK, this time to GPB 100 for a trans-Atlantic flight, or nealrly US$200. Fortunately, the United States has strongly objected and threatened legal action against this scheme to hose air travelers. A strong letter of objection containing that threat has been leaked in the British press.
A previous ''save the planet'' air tax had already made the UK by far the most taxing place to fly into in Europe, to be followed July 1 by the Netherlands, whose center-left government is imposing a similar repressive anti-air traveler tax. I wish the US had gotten involved when these tax-happy governments first started this dreadful idea.
A previous ''save the planet'' air tax had already made the UK by far the most taxing place to fly into in Europe, to be followed July 1 by the Netherlands, whose center-left government is imposing a similar repressive anti-air traveler tax. I wish the US had gotten involved when these tax-happy governments first started this dreadful idea.
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