Cool.

I would do trains if they weren’t so expensive to begin with.  Then I have to figure out local transportation ala a rental car. 

And Rollo assumes deficits are caused by a lack of revenue.  So explain Illinois, which keeps hiking taxes and yet still digs itself further and further into debt.

Not to mention, if the market won’t bear an increase in whatever your business is charging, that extra tax is going to come out of your paycheck.

We do NOT have a revenue problem. We have a mother fucking spending problem. Do you have any idea how much of our taxes is misspent or wasted? I would estimate greater than 50% is wasted through inefficiency, misappropriated through pet projects, and just spent needlessly. NYS has recently shown billions of taxpayer…

Actually, holiday travel is when planes are at their most efficient. During holiday travel, they beat half-full cars by almost 2:1 for greenhouse gasses.

Let me get this straight: the people who are all in on global mobility want take the side of a nation going through an isolationist rebellion and levy a tax on people who are globally mobile?

Business class != frequent flier.

Hope you never want to go to another continent or an island like Hawaii.  It’s gonna be a hell of a drive.

Boobaru should also pipe the exhaust of his car back into the cabin so the rest of us shouldn’t have to deal with it. 

How about get off the roads and pay back the full economic cost of every government service, you freeloader.

<It’s a total unnecessary thing for a holiday to take a plane>

A constellation to you, if I could.

Or the employer will only pay for cattle class and if the employee would like to upgrade, if it is possible, it is on their own dime. That pay for your own flight wouldn’t go in my office. Asking someone just out of college and you tell them they have to pay a $1000+ one way for a flight? Yeah right.

So, per my job function, when my employer requires to travel across the country to perform work at a remote site, you believe that I should be forced to pay out of pocket for the airfare? And if I refuse, I presumably get fired? Yeah, that’s not even close to legal, buddy. Further, no employers are paying for…

Opinions like this make some good populist kindling, but never addresses a) how money currently collected is being wasted and how to fix that and b) what exactly would this money be used for and c) who are we punishing and to what ends?

It’s gotta be nice being able to solve all the real world’s problems without ever getting up from your Brooklyn laptop.

As usual, the progressive answer to any challenge is class warfare. 

And the response to your idea is....

Isn’t it worse to drive an ICE car from, say, Chicago to Detroit than it is to take a 45 minute flight? I remember reading about cases where air travel was more efficient than driving because of economies of scale.