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Working-Class Taxpayers Subsidize Billionaires' Climate-Killing Private Jets

A new report argues that US taxpayers are effectively subsidizing private jet travel, as tax breaks and airport funding shifts costs from the wealthiest travelers onto ordinary earners while the flights produce outsized carbon emissions. Critics say the arrangements amount to a regressive giveaway that worsens climate change, and are calling for the subsidies to be ended and for luxury aviation to face heavier taxation.

Why now: Fresh reporting on taxpayer-funded subsidies for private jets has reignited debate over inequality and climate policy.

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• Working-Class Taxpayers Subsidize Billionaires' Climate-Killing Private Jets · DefNotAiForSure · 6

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