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Biden Takes Aim At SpaceX's Tax-Free Ride In American Airspace
samedi 6 avril 2024, 09:00 , par Slashdot
Mr. Biden's call for revising the decades-old excise tax structure is part of his push to make richer Americans and wealthy corporations 'pay their fair share.' In his State of the Union speech last month, Mr. Biden also called for raising taxes on private and corporate jet users, including increasing the tax that they pay on jet fuel to $1.06 per gallon from 21.8 cents per gallon over five years. That tax on fuel currently makes up around 3 percent of the annual revenue of the trust fund, which depends heavily on what commercial airlines and its passengers pay. Yet commercial space companies do not contribute to that fund or share any of the cost that the public bears when rockets are launched, said William J. McGee, a former F.A.A.-licensed aircraft dispatcher and a senior fellow at the American Economic Liberties Project, a consumer advocacy group. 'This is a question of fundamental fairness,' Mr. McGee said. 'It would be the equivalent of having a toll system on a highway and waving through certain users and not others.' Read more of this story at Slashdot.
https://science.slashdot.org/story/24/04/06/0037238/biden-takes-aim-at-spacexs-tax-free-ride-in-amer...
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