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Posted at 10:24am on Apr. 27, 2008 Democrats Just Can't Help Themselves
By haystack
In the general scheme of things, this is no big deal I guess, but it fries my grits just thinking about all the new and ever-creative ways Democrats are finding to increase taxes. It's probably just me being cynical again, but it seems they first villify CEOs and Big Corporations, then they beat up on the eeeeevil rich folk (while happily and quietly taking their money to get elected...thank you very much). If it suits them, they fault others for taking campaign money they have taken themselves, and when no one is looking they punish (read "bite the hand that feeds") them via tax increases:
U.S. business-jet owners would pay 65 percent more in fuel taxes to finance federal air-traffic control upgrades, under an agreement among Senate leaders.
The levy would increase to 36 cents a gallon from 21.8 cents now, under the accord announced in a statement today in Washington by Senator Jay Rockefeller, a West Virginia Democrat. Airline passenger fees and taxes wouldn't rise, he said.
The agreement between Rockefeller, chairman of the Senate aviation subcommittee, and Montana Democrat Max Baucus, who runs the Senate Finance Committee, ends a seven-month standoff that stalled an aviation-funding bill. Today's deal clears the way for an April 28 vote to bring the bill to the full Senate.
Rockefeller wanted to double fuel taxes for corporate aircraft while cutting fees for airlines, which he said paid disproportionately for aviation services. Instead, he settled for the smaller boost, so that small-jet owners will pay 5 percent of federal aviation costs, up from 3 percent.
"This agreement is a good down payment toward ending the growing inequities that exist between airline passengers and corporate jet users," Rockefeller said in the statement.
Growing inequities? Why do we need to make everyday airline passengers and Corporate jet users more "equal" in the first place? The mind reels.
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