Good. Whoever owns a private jet can afford to participate in the funding of the city.
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Damn. I'm 9 minutes too late to make the same comment.
Do it anyway. You only live once. I'll upvote it no matter how many times it's posted.
Good. Whoever owns a private jet can afford to participate in the funding of the city.
I'll upvote it no matter how many times it's posted.
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How do we call them here anyway?
Upperlemmerdings and Downerlemmerdingos are the very serious technical terms.
You got upperlemmerdinged by me for such an informative post
short form, of course
I believe they're called doots, as in updoots and downdoots
Are we sure this isn’t the onion? The article is worth a read, what a bunch of absolute gems!
If you own an apartment in New York and don’t live there full-time, you’re taxed. If your heirs inherit assets in New York, they’re taxed at thresholds that now reach the upper middle class. The logical extension of this trajectory — and the question the entire private aviation industry should be asking — is: what about the $70 million jet you landed at Teterboro this morning?
No! Say it ain’t so! Rich dips being taxed as much as gasp the upper middle class??? and that’s nothing, now they want to tax your 70 million dollar jet? Thats not even the nice one! Why even own it anymore???? Taxes on property? I mean, you’re not even using it! How dare they tax it!
This isn’t about airspace. It’s about politics. And the pattern is unmistakable.
The author is so close! It’s not about politics, it’s about people realizing that the rich people are trash and are strangling the rest of us. So fuck your private jets, fuck your entitled ass for being outraged at having to pay taxes on your manhattan vacation home or whatever has you so worked up over the pied-à-terre tax. I hope you choke on the gold leaf you put on your bagels or whatever. If the masses get hungry enough, they are going to eat you.
Not really a surprise, the article was written by a CEO of a private jet company.
bro is just trying to sell charter flights to other rich fucks. it's an ad.
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If I have to pay taxes on my labor they can pay it on their luxuries. At least I'm doing something useful for this country.
Tbf, it could also be a little about airspace. Teterboro, JFK, and LaGuardia make for some of the busiest and most crowded airspace in the world. I'm sure ATC would love not having to deal with the extra headache of vectoring around planes with 200 people in them for the sake of some stuffy fuck in his private jet.
It's not about airspace at all. ATC (part of the FAA) isn't funded by airport landing/handling/ramp fees. Controllers wouldn't ever get any of this money, and they probably wouldn't care either way, other than that directionally less traffic probably means smaller federal budget allocations for ATC.
As things go, ATC is pretty egalitarian. If you fly up in hour homebuilt carbon cub, they'll give you the same respect and attention that they give Delta or JetBlue. Private jets don't get special treatment. If anything, ATC gives you favorable treatment for being knowledgeable, predictable, communicative, and not actin the fool.
And that's the whole point. Why should 10 private jets with total of 10 passengers get 10x more attention than a single airbus with 300 passengers?
The reason is that each of those private jets is a missile that, if not given appropriate attention, can run into any of the airliners. From an ATC POV, a plane is a plane - they all need to be kept separate. Some of them have different characteristics, to be sure. But they all have to be managed for the safety of everyone. Now, it could be a different argument as to whether you should allow private jets in really busy airspace. But if you let them in, you have to manage them, same as everyone else.
Oh fuck, this absolutely ruins all of my private jet related plans, damn.
You can tax all my jets! You’re more than welcome to.
The law, in it's majestic equality, imposes taxes on the private jets of the poor and the rich. - Anatole France or something
I saw a Fox News talking head arguing with Ro Khanna the other day, and she attacked Mamdani by saying the top 1% already pay 45% of the city's tax revenues. Bitch, the top 1% controls 90% of the wealth.
I've got a proposal: flat tax + UBI.
Flat tax, everybody everywhere pays the same tax rate on ALL THE THINGS every time. Simple as imaginable, one tax rate collected on every transaction. One tax rate collected on every holding. All this "tax rebate incentive" legislation? Call it what it is: incentive legislation. Keep the incentives, but structure them equally for all people, not just as tax dodges for people who pay a lot of taxes.
UBI, all citizens, regardless of needs, income or any other criteria - are you alive? are you a citizen? You get the same UBI as every other citizen. But the rich don't need UBI - no they don't, and they pay plenty of taxes, they still get UBI too - if they don't like it, they can donate it to charity - not for a tax break - but because it feels good.
Own 90% of the wealth? Pay 90% of the taxes, that's how it works. You get the same UBI as everybody else.
The funny thing with financial aid is that it is possible to spend more money figuring out who isn't eligible than it would cost to just give it to more people
And it's not even a rare occurrence. It's so common that being cheaper is one of the most common arguments in favor of schemes like UBI or universal single-payer healthcare.
Of course the most common (but unspoken) counterargument is that distressingly many people would prefer to make everyone worse off to make sure people who "don't deserve it" don't get paid.
Unironicly, Mr. Doolittle's speech in My Fair Lady convinced me that aid should be given to both the "deserving" and "undeserving" needy.
What am I? I ask you, what am I? I'm one of the underserving poor, that's what I am. Now, think what that means to a man. It means he's up against middle-class morality for all the time. If there's anything going, and I puts in for a bit of it, it's always the same story: you're undeserving, so you can't have it. needs is as great as the most deserving widows that ever got money out of six different charities in one week for the death of the same husband. need LESS than a deserving man, I need MORE. less hearty than he does, and I drink... oh, a lot more.
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Flat tax rates are furthering inequality, because poor people have to use up a far larger percentage of their disposable income on necessities, effectively paying way more taxes. All the while, rich people can save much more.
Sounds completely straightforward that if you own 90% of the wealth, you pay 90% of the tax. And they'll fight you till the bitter end to convince everybody otherwise.
Amen to that brother, every second it’s in an ny airport it should be charged a dollar and flat rate of 15 mins 1500$
Good, nobody should have one to begin with.
The opinions expressed in Fortune.com commentary pieces are solely the views of their authors and do not necessarily reflect the opinions and beliefs of Fortune.
This is Greg Raiff's first piece for Fortune's user-generated content program. He appairs to be the CEO of a charter jet company.
I'd dispute that it doesn't reflect the opinions and beliefs of Fortune, though, based on this:
gestures towards everything they've ever published
Needs more breathless adulation of wealthy sociopaths.
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Army of people making under $30k a year about to come out of the woodwork to scream about how bad this is for the economy
Faux Nooz: Rich people paying rich people to tell middle-class people to blame poor people.
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Guess I'm just going to have to sell that sucker, I'm hoping to get 8 figures off of it, but I'll honestly be happy with 6. What will I ever do....
Ok? A reasonable person doesn’t have a fucn private jet and those who do should pay taxes???? We’re people owning large polluting private vehicles not paying taxes????
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Good, I hope he takes it
I really hate this because one day I might have a private jet maybe
Surely no one is this out-of-touch with reality. This must've been written by a leftist in disguise just to make rich people look clueless.
He sells charter flights. The cheaper and more sensible alternative to outright owning a private jet without having to see plebs on your plane, with like a tiny bit less flexibility.
The private jet tax might actually benefit him, he's now taking advantage of it to pull attention to charter flights.
Tax them more! And demand that they be inspected for compliance with NY, NYC, and NJ laws every time! Catch the pedo bastards before they leave their wasteful, reckless, planet-destroyers.
Oh no! Not my private jet!
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