England: Tax domestic flights out of existence

[DesertFox]

Flights within the UK should be taxed almost out of existence, a leading Tory MP said today.

Tim Yeo, who chairs the House of Commons Environmental Audit Committee, said he wanted to see "virtually no" domestic flights taking off within a decade.

Amid growing clamour over the emissions caused by politicians' long-haul holiday flights, Mr Yeo said radical action was needed closer to home first.

He said he now always travelled to Scotland by train "as a matter of conscience" and insisted there was "no reason at all why people should fly around the UK".

More (http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/politics/article2149768.ece)

[DesertFox]

Well, our enviros haven't gone this far yet.

[Kathy30]

The power to tax is the power to destroy. It might not be domestic flights in the US but this power will certainly be used and is being used. It can be used to destroy just about anything.

[DeclinetoState]

Flights within the UK should be taxed almost out of existence, a leading Tory MP said today.The Tories are supposedly the Conservatives. Who knows what the Labourites and other leftists there are planning?

[Jag Wife]

It scares me that I'm descended from these mental midgets. :rolleyes:

[DeclinetoState]

It scares me that I'm descended from these mental midgets. Look on the bright side: If Paris Hilton ever drops a kid into the world, at least you'll have something in common with the child.

:D

[Beowulf]

The power to tax is the power to destroy. It might not be domestic flights in the US but this power will certainly be used and is being used. It can be used to destroy just about anything.
It's working here in America. At the federal level, taxes are down but around here, local and state taxes are skyrocketing because of Democrats artificially escalating property values for tax purposes.