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- 1Working-Class Taxpayers Subsidize Billionaires' Private Jets●Working-Class Taxpayers Subsidize Billionaires' Climate-Killing Private Jets
A new report from Common Dreams argues that US taxpayer dollars effectively subsidize private jet travel by billionaires, with aviation tax breaks and public funding流向 an industry that produces outsized carbon emissions per passenger. Critics say ordinary working people are footing the bill for the wealthiest travelers' pollution, and are calling for an end to these subsidies and higher taxes on private aviation.