Mildly Infuriating

Because of the air industry (and car industry) lobbies.

"The Okefenokee Swamp is a shallow, 438,000-acre (177,000 ha), peat-filled wetland straddling the Georgia–Florida line in the United States. A majority of the swamp is protected by the Okefenokee National Wildlife Refuge and the Okefenokee Wilderness. The Okefenokee Swamp is considered to be one of the Seven Natural Wonders of Georgia and is the largest "blackwater" swamp in North America." -Wikipedia

Add to this Indian Reservation land, National Park/Preserve/ Wildlife Refuge land, the Everglades, other swamp/marshland, etc and you start to see that there's several environmental challenges to a rail system from Georgia to Orlando Florida.

High speed rail has a massive stigma in the US as hundreds of billions have been spent on failed rail projects (embezzled or just abandoned mostly) and 99% of us have never even seen it in existence. It's like a myth scam sold to us by snake oil salesmen.

Sure, if we fund it again it will really happen this time.

Have you ever seen a ducks penis? Just be glad whatever genitals you have isn't a ducks penis. It's so fucked up that they don't even GET a bathroom. They just pee in the drinking water. They pee in lakes. Ponds. Your bathtub. They pee anywhere they want, any time they want.

Thats why they all hang out at parks, and the government doesn't stop them. Think about it man. You don't see lions and tigers and bears at the park......because Disney owns the rights to The Wizard of Oz. So you can't see those animals for free! They gotta get locked up in jail and then they call it a zoo, and charge you $22.50 per adult, and $12 per child under 12. Except on Mondays where it's free if you're a local resident of the county.

But they don't do that with ducks. You know what else Disney owns? The Mighty Ducks. Darkwing Duck.

And NOBODY is paying money to see those properties. So they don't arrest the ducks, because theres no profit there. Follow the money. It all leads back to those crazy duck penis's, and nobody wants to admit that Howard the Duck is officially a Marvel character, living in the same MCU as Spiderman, and Ironman, and the X-Men.

THATS why ducks don't have bathrooms, while humans fight over things like trans athletes being allowed to play sports in college, and throwing green dildos at female basketball players to promote cryptocurrencies.

We live in the dumbest timeline.

• Tickets for flights are taxed at 7.5% to pay for the FAA
• Average flight with many passengers pays over $2,300 per flight
• Private jets don't have tickets to be taxed, are only taxed on fuel
• Private jets pay an average of about $60 in FAA fees
• Private jets take up about 7% of the FAA's resources, but only make up a fraction of a percent of the revenue
• Thus when you pay the FAA fees on your economy class ticket, you're subsidizing operating the FAA for private jet flights, that don't pay enough to cover their costs.

The FAA gathers taxes per person, not per plane. So a commercial flight has every single passenger paying, while a private jet only pays for a few people. That’s a difference of about $2300 for a commercial flight, vs about $60 for a private jet. Private flights make up about 7% of air travel, but contribute less than a tenth of a percent in taxes. But the air traffic controllers aren’t handling individual people; They’re handling planes. So private jets fund the ATC a lot less than commercial flights, even though they have just as much need.

This video says Canada taxes planes based on weight rating and distance traveled. So larger planes that can carry heavier loads (more people) get taxed more, while smaller planes (private jets) get taxed less. But they’re proportionally paying the same in taxes, instead of the rich people paying less.

There are long standing problems with this. Not sure of the exact point of the video, but here is an older article with some info: https://www.newsweek.com/why-are-private-jets-being-subsidized-you-and-me-641890

I'm afraid that fight is lost 😞

You don't get rich by paying full freight.

Per-passenger is a stupid way to charge this tax because the service provided is per-plane.

The math in this video checks out, even when spreading the costs over all the passengers of a larger plane.

The fuel rates are currently about $0.22/gallon, and are going up to $1.06/gallon over 5 years, but even that wouldn't put them on par with commercial flights (they pay 0.6% of the fees, but use 7% of resources, $1.06 divided by $0.22 gets you 4.81x the current 0.6%, which is still 2.9% of the fees, while using 7% of FAA resources.)

So even with the current fuel rate increases, private jets would still be paying less than half of what they end up using.

How would that even work? Commercial airlines and private jet operators are different entities.

This is about taxes funding the FAA, and the implied conclusion of the video isn't that these taxes should be removed, but that they should be weighted more heavily towards private flights for the sake of fairness.

The fundamental difference is the direction of the redistribution.

The capitalist system inherently distributes from poor to rich. With no state involved, a capitalist system strictly and always devolves into one person (or a very small group) owning everything and everyone else being owned by them. That's why we have states that do have redistribution systems that try to counteract that: We have progressive tax systems that tax the rich more than the poor to fund free (or at least subsidized) public good systems.

To get back to your example: The rich don't need free schools. Even without free public education, they would still be able to afford to send their kids to expensive private schools. A free school program is there to mostly benefit the poor.

Redistribution systems that redistribute from poor to rich on the other hand are inherently broken. The base economic system already does that redistribution from poor to rich, so allowing the rich to mooch even more off the system is not a good idea.