EU’s New Climate Change Tax Will Exempt Private Jets – Opinion

Perhaps many more people on earth would take the climate change hysterics a bit more seriously if climate activists weren’t such raging hypocrites.

In the midst of preparing a proposal to establish a minimal tax rate on aviation fuels, the European Union has begun work. They want to intensify their fight against climate changes by focusing on an area that is largely overlooked by climate change enthusiasts, such as fossil fuels.

The Irish Times

In order to reach more ambitious climate goals, the Commission plans to establish an EU minimum tax rate on aviation fuels.

A draft of the commission’s tax proposal takes aim at aviation, which escapes EU fuel taxes.

That exemption “is not coherent with the present climate challenges and policies,” the document said, adding that EU tax rules promote fossil fuels over green energy sources and need rewriting to support the bloc’s climate goals.

This proposal proposes a minimum EU level tax for energy products used as fuel in aircraft flights.

All very well and good, if not useless (the planet’s worst polluters are China and India), but we wouldn’t expect the EU to simply let their economy churn at a natural rate. That’s not very European.

Team Hypocrisy. For all the EU’s bloviating about how we only have 12-years 3years 18monthsThey quickly stated that private jets would not be subject to the new tax, and it will take us a very short time before our skin is charred by the sun.

However, the minimum EU tax rate would not apply to cargo-only flights or to “pleasure flights” and “business aviation” – a term that covers executive jets.

Private jets would be subject to the tax rates set by the member states. However, the EU is continuing to consider the merits and specifics.

Isn’t it funny how the poorest among us are always expected to bear the burden of climate change while our “betters” eat cake?