Denmark to introduce "green tax" on plane tickets

Little by little, deliberately, tightening the peasants' belts

Photo by John McArthur on Unsplash

Enough of those peasants outrageously taking air travel for granted and flying back and forth like it’s 1999! It’s time to get the peasants back to the good old feudal days. It’s time to squeeze them not so gently—here and there—until they forget what it felt like to go about their lives before the glorious great reset.

The post-2001 TSA boots-off-n-strip thing was great, no doubt. It served its purpose to humiliate the previously relaxed and entitled folks. But nothing works better than pricing the peasants out of their previously “normal” desires. Flying places? Chocolate? Eggs? Meat? Driving? Uninterrupted electricity? Haha. Dream on. Go earn enough to own a private jet, and then we’ll talk.

And by the way—I am serious now—it’s true that the post-industrial-revolution business model of everything has been a glamorous act of stealing borrowing from the future. It’s true in many ways. And one can even argue that the lower end of the Danish tax is not that high. But what about the lying and the obvious peasant-squeezing act? Those in very high chairs preaching sustainability are liars. And anything that comes out of the mouth of a liar is a lie. And I despise lies.

They, the they, will most certainly keep flying, and eating meat, and drinking fine wine, and laughing at the peasants who are panting under the renovated yoke of the not so great reset. What makes me personally incensed is the bulldozer-like pushing, it’s the sleight of hand. (Like when they made you pay for paper bags at the store…. the bags are still there, they are still made, it’s just that they are now paid for out of your pocket and not theirs. Haha.)

Anyway, the Danish planes.

Denmark's government said Friday it plans to phase in from 2025 a green tax on plane tickets, urging fellow EU states to follow its example.

"The transport sector is currently undertaking a rapid green transition [←wink, wink], and with this agreement, this also concerns aviation," Transport Minister Thomas Danielsen said in a statement.

"It will still be possible to fly, but it must be possible to do this in an environmentally friendly way [←wink, wink]."

The tax, which will apply to flights departing from Denmark but not to connecting passengers, will be set at 30 kroner (EUR4) for short-haul flights when it is introduced in 2025 rising to 50 kroner in 2030.

Long- and short-haul flights will be taxed at as much as 410 kroner in 2030, by which time the average tax will be 100 kroner.

"I imagine that as the years go by we shall have common European regulation in this area. That would be the right way forward," Climate and Energy Minister Lars Aagaard said.

The measure is expected to help finance investment in the transition of domestic air transport to wholesale use of sustainable fuels by 2030 and an increase in a pensioner bonus, received by those getting the smallest pensions, by around EUR2 billion per year.

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A statement from the Danish Ministry of Taxation said the new tax will be approximately $7.35 per passenger for flights within Europe by 2030, $45.33 for medium-distance flights and $59.95 for long flights, reported Reuters…

Revenue from the new measure is expected to contribute to sustainable fuel use in domestic air transportation by the end of the decade, as well as a pensioner bonus increase of approximately $2.18 billion annually for those receiving the smallest benefits.

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These two images from a 2019 report that I wrote about here.

Please note the dates on the posts below. The more recent one about the Myth of Progress digs deeper and looks at the existential side.

New Normal, Go Away

The Great Reset for Dummies

The Myth of Progress

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