You're Paying for Billionaires' Private Jet Travel. Here's How. 

Sadly, that's the case here in Canada as well. Even with public unions in a majority of jurisdictions representing teachers.

For 20 years, I did JUST that. 💔 We need to do a better job. 😢

And they are paid nothing

There’s a lot of things that don’t make sense in this accursed world

they dont work much

It's called corporate fascism.

​@@6thfaceit's called capitalism my bro

@@igku8339 Been going on since the foundation of this country.

Bootstraps!!! Did you make the mistake of not being born into a wealthy family? That's on you. Won't somebody think of the billionaires!

​@@6thfacefascism is capitalism in decay

Newsflash kylie isn't holding you or anyone back from working..its not her problem you can't afford to live..stop blaming otheyfor your failures

@@SoloKasivaSurely, she is a symptom of a greater problem. While I agree Kylie doesn’t have a direct impact in anyone’s struggling life, the system that substantially benefits her leaves everyone else with nothing. To a larger extent, these institutions need to be reviewed and wealth needs to be redistributed so that the poor, working poor, and barely middle class are elevated.

@@brycecooley7017idolatry

The reason Kylie can do that is because of minimum wage morons who make her rich.

@@SoloKasiva did you watch or understand the video? Doesn't sound like it. The point is that rich people's excess is getting subsidized by the rest of us. Endless tax breaks and tax code loopholes to avoid contributing to society, legislative fuckery to open the door to lobbyists, and rig the game in their favour, red-lining, the criminal-industrial complex and many other sociological apparati to prevent marginalized people from getting a foothold to improve their lives, the list goes on and on. Kylie Jenner and Kim Kardashian are utterly useless people. They are famous and rich just for being famous and rich. Their existance is pointless. - they have a net-negative value on society. It's beyond dumb that poor people berate other poor people in defense of these stupidly rich leeches

Easy answer is that the politicians work in the interests of the capitalist class. I am talking about both political parties.

@@JohnT.4321 hints why they have no spine

@@PeterFnPorker They have a spine when working in the interest of the capitalist class. We just get lips service and a few crumbs.

They've also successfully conned the regular American people into thinking taxes are the equivalence of theft and are morally evil. I wonder if these people ever wonder why we are the richest country on earth, the highest GDP, yet 60% of americans live paycheck-to-paycheck.

Corruption is not spinelessness. They know that you have to vote blue or red so why would they care about you ?

I hope they switch to First Class - I will happily stay in Coach - away from them!

But that's not an American ideal, they're free to buy those jets if they have the money to do so. If you wanna buy a plane, buy a plane. The issue is with how easy it is for these people to game the system, put the heavy lifting of keeping society functioning on everyone but them, while they simultaneously own most of the wealth in that society and largely control how its economy functions. How does someone who's in their 30s afford a $70M jet while everyone else struggles to put gas in their car and pay for groceries? Why do we idiolize people that wouldn't give the rest of us the time of day and better yet would sell you down the river for a quarter? The solution is not social/economic control, it is making sure everyone has a fair opportunity, that there is no aristocracy. The government shouldn't be the one dissuading you from buying a car, house, building, etc. That's a social issue. If you want to dissuade people from buying private jets, we have to stop looking at that as a sign of someone who is successful. Its a plane, not a status symbol. The government should ensure you dont have too much personal/economic power and that your blind ambition to be rich doesn't infringe on everyone else's rights to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. People that can afford these jets routinely do infringe on those rights and they have enough economic power to bend the rules to where very little gets in their way of doing so. If you can afford a private jet by building quality houses at a reasonable price, with ethically sourced materials, proper permits and taxes, and paying your workers a good wage and providing them a good, safe, caring work lifestyle where they can prosper, all while not purposely driving smaller contractors of out business to establish a monopoly then be my guest 🤷‍♂️ but guess would be you couldn't

​@@zacmurphy9867air travel is much more polluting/damaging to atmosphere than ground travel, so we all should all fly less and do more zoom meetings.. The landing fee could also increased to make the rich pay a fairer portion which could Perhaps pay for better air traffic control as well as clean air iniatives.

@@joeljong931 Sure it's more polluting, I never said it wasn't. But you can't force people to do that. Yes that's what we should do but that's the social aspect, you have to change the perception that that's the epitome of success to have a $70M jet that you take to business meetings sometimes 30 minutes away. Social concepts like that are 100% debatable and that's the way it should be in the land of the free. What you shouldn't be able to do is have your cake and eat it too, where you cheat the system to buy said jet, and the system rewards you by making it cheaper and more accessible to fly your jet frivolously while the rest of your countrymen pay the price. If you can afford even a $15M jet, unless you're a charter pilot and own the plane to do that business, you shouldn't be concerned at all about paying your fair share for using the publicly funded airport and contributing to climate change/air quality issues, and even the charter pilot should pay of course, but as a business instead of an individual. Nothing in the private aviation sector should be subsidized in my opinion and that includes the airlines, they're a business just like everyone else. If I have to pay for a ticket to fly, why should I also be essentially paying all year round every year to give the airline breaks on slots, hanger fees, maintenance, inspections, fuel etc etc? Those funds should go directly to maintaining the airport and its staff and nothing else

Fuel taxes are per gallon. Plus, landing fees are harsh at large airports, that's why Kim and others fly to smaller airports. "We" subsidize nothing.

You know why SUVs exist? Ron Reagan changed vehicle classes so that pickup trucks became cars. Then, all emissions standards were changed (increased) to accommodate the trucks. Yep. Republicans

​@@MarcPaganyou didn't watch the video. The landing taxes are to recover where the most costs occur.

​@@MarcPaganand pay close attention. We subsidize everything. The oil industry recieved $1T in subsidies in 2022 despite their record profits in the 100s of billions.

Yes, and how much did the lose prior? How much have they paid back? Consider that in the past 10 years, major oil and gas companies suffered tremendous losses in 2014, 2015, and 2020. In fact, in 2020 the five integrated supermajors (i.e., “Big Oil”) - ExxonMobil, BP, Shell, Chevron, and Total - lost $76 billion @@Ratboy2004

^^^

Exactly

If we can not unite to take away the rich people's power from them because there is nothing we can do to choose how the country spends our taxes, then we have failed as a nation...😭and I am all against that. I do not want to be a powerless average citizen! We have to stand united if we want our work to pay for us and not for them! 😢Should I become the next Adolf Hitler to wage World War 3 against rich people and oligarchies? Because I want us to come to a far more peaceful solution than that.

I see what you did. Clever!

Just like in CA where billions unaccounted for after edit to actually help the "unhouse".

That's what Robin Hood was trying to make us understand, all those centuries ago...

The only way this will stop is if people stop buying anything that is endorsed by a self absorbed celebrity, and stop watching/listening to/reading about them...There are much better things to spend one's money on...

Tax the rich 97%.

​@@clawscrab3497...... Nope. Your still funding the oliarchy in this manner. Reduce, re-use, share, and buld together. Did you know you can make the most powerful style of microscope, a Scanning Tunneling Microscope (STM) and see actual atoms with those stupid annying "speaking" novelty cards, a tiny peice of tungston (very cheaply avalible used to be in light bulbs) and otherwise random would be trash and of course your computer? You can do it, and see atoms for yourself. ATOMS. probably could move them one at a time as well, IDK for sure. Did you know you can make all the little electronics in your computers using a stamp? Yup. not all stamp materials can do it, but some are capable of stamping down to nano meter ranges. Wow. I just gave away the pathway that a small group of hobbiests could. IDK.. just make thier own computers. You can also make your own cars. youd have to copy older cars generally ones considered antique, and use electric motors. But you can. And generally can for less then buying a used car. Especially if its a junk yard special. And you defenitly can do it. You most certianly have the base skills to pull it off, with friends.

This is why children should not have to pay their lunch money to school bus drivers when they need fuel. That was just an alarmist joke in The School Bus Driver from the Black Lagoon. School districts that have a decent level of funding will give school bus drivers the money they need to buy gas for their school bus.

we citizens seriously need to unite to end citizens united.

How would you go about repealing Citizens United given that Citizens United is in effect? Wouldn't any efforts to pass legislation to repeal it ALSO be wing-clipped by lobbying?

cu won't be repealed until CENSORED BY RU-vid GESTAPO

It has no chance of even getting out of committee. The idea is fine, but party control will prevent it from ever being more than a campaign tool for Markey, Velazquez, and Nydia.

And repeal Buckley v. Valeo. And _end_ the federal reserve.

And churches!!!!!

lets simplify that sentence: the wealthy need higher taxes

We straight up need to set an income cap, and tax capital gains and loans issued from stocks.

@@Denise_Suzanne Definitely churches. Especially how easy for become a "church". Also, the churches are being used for political purposes including fund raising

@@SplinterInYourEye That might be a bit too far but the taxes need to be steeper the more you earn

rich people always pay less. they get bulk discounts, they get tons of stuff offered for free because people want their business. big businesses can always negotiate lower prices, despite not needed them as much. they get tax breaks from cities that want them to stay there. the entire system is just built to benefit rich people the most at the expense of regular citizens.

In the state of Texas if you hire a felon the company receives a $20,000 tax write-off for each year the felon is employed with the company. Not just one year but every year they are employed. The company I work for never hired felons or people without a high school diploma but here we are today with a good 80% of the employees are felons. I've been trying to get my son on for 3 years and they keep saying they're not hiring and the same department I work in. In that 3 years we have hired over 50 new people each were felons. But they keep saying they're not hiring😂😂😂. He's not a felon and neither am I I just started before Texas past this or I would not have had the opportunity to work there either.

Also where I work I make 40,000 a year which means the company only pays 20,000 for felons and the rest of us pay the other 20,000 with our taxes that the company is not paying. And they say crime doesn't pay. It might not for the felons but it sure does for the companies they work for.

@@youtubecommercialsareascam8495 The only people who say, "Crime doesn't pay" are criminals. And the only people who believe it are fools. Crime is the bedrock of American Enterprise and always has been. The difference between the convict that was locked up for decades and the ruling class is that the convict, either didn't steal enough, or stole from the ruling class.

Yes, the rich are on welfare and the Republicans are vehemently oppose UBI. America was making loans all over the world during the great depression.

Smart.

Conservative brainlets will say it's good that we do because it's trickle down economics. You can't make this kind of cuckholdry up!

They get to do this, and China gets to have as many coal plants as they want, but the environmentalists are busy demonizing cow farts and making us eat bugs.

I was gonna make a comment like this. Though between riding business on a CRJ or riding in the back of a surplus T-38 TSwift would probably prefer the former.

When I heard about some of the controversial things this family has been in the headlines for over the years and was watching TV one day, I knew that day full well the Kardashians were always paying little tax and that there was something wrong systemically. The corporate media across the globe hasn't even bat so much as even an eye about this, not even in 2020 when financial situations started getting trickier for many.

True, but don’t just pick on them, there’s hundreds more that do the exact same thing.

​@@ds7675Exactly about 700+ families.

There are so many reasons.

Yes and that reason is jealous 🙄...i am embrassed on your behalf.. imaging hating someone for been rich than your generation

😭If our unions can do nothing to solve these problems, then our country has failed as a society...possibly forever. I am too depressed to try enacting positive change anymore. The bad always cheats to make the good less powerful and exert more control and abuse over us.

that "soot" is lead dust, they haven't outlawed leaded fuel for aviation use

yup, lead is cancerous to living creatures but since it makes the planes fly cheaply, fuck the world!@@clarabisson7299

And a parasite on the rest of us.

It’s called “neoliberalism” and got popular in this country starting with Reagan (yes, I said that right, Google it). Every president after him has also passed neoliberal laws to help the wealthy and corporations, yes even Obama and Biden (it was just on Democracy Now! this morning that Biden has approved more fossil fuel permits than Trump).

Short answer: we live under state capitalism. Longer answer: the modern nation state developed a few hundred years ago to serve the needs of the upper class. It's basically doing what it was built to do by taking money from the poor and giving it to the rich. The difference between our current system and the feudalist system that preceded it is that the nation state does a better job of convincing poor people that their interests align with those of the ruling class (through a shared national identity) and of concealing the real source of the violence it uses (think criminalizing unemployed people through taxes, iteneracy laws, loitering laws, etc.). Basically, the state itself is a tool used by the ultra wealthy. The state pacifies the public by staging elections that result in no fundamental changes to the system and by passing laws that prevent resistance boiling over into outright revolution, but at the end of the day they're doing it to maintain the status quo. So labor legislation comes in waves. The Reagan administration was a blow to earlier labor movements for sure, but its hardly the sole cause.

@@missc2742 Pretty much spot on. Thank you for doing the work.

You won't because it's not a myth

If you honestly think that there’s no such thing as a self-made millionaire, then you’re a sad, sad person.

@@Laotzu.Goldbug I agree. You CAN be a self-made millionaire, but the problem is many people who claim they are self-made aren't. Ditto for billionaires: Swift, Musk, Bezos, the Kardashian-Jenners ... all products of generational wealth.

Ever since video conferencing became reliable enough for business use, flying just to attend meetings has become no longer necessary. People who still do it are probably trying to make an impression or satisfy their own vanity...

​@InventorZahran anything connected to the internet can be hacked in real time if the right person wants to. Only a fool would conduct secretive business over the internet.

I would like my refund in blood.

@@ohiasdxfcghbljokasdjhnfvaw4ehr Cool the edge there amigo; I'd sooner have something I can actually benefit from, like reduced taxes.

@@Attaxalotl Quell all fascists.

they need you to shut up and work harder

My employer pays for all employees to go to Oktoberfest, while salaries are above average and people obviously can afford it. However trades professions or others in low paying jobs, they will never get such perks

enjoy Oktoberfest while ya can!@@tatjana7008

They will always get away with that, I'm just fully disappointed in world now

I know the first crack was in Buckley Vs. Velleo which was decades back, but far more people have heard of the Supreme Court ruling of Citizens United, which really opened the floodgates. It basically legalized bribery. If only more average people truly understood this system, we’d at least be able to actually TRY to address the problems that are hurting us all. Knowledge is power

Lobbying is a good and healthy thing and not something that is only done by rich executive. Whatever your political views are, whatever issues you are concerned about I guarantee there is at least one if not many groups lobbying on behalf of that. and it's root lobbying is merely applying influence or petitioning the government or politicians to do things. If you stand for religious freedom, if you stand for animal rights, if you're interested in expanding or restricting abortion, if you're interested in education and so on there are plenty of lobbying groups. They write papers, press releases, news articles, call and send letters to politicians, organize public events and so on. Because the term is so overused and abused out of context people think that lobbying is really just a euphemism for paying people under the table and that's it. in reality it describes an exceptionally wide range of activities of which financial compensation of any kind is only a portion. Bribery is a very narrow activity which just involves paying people to do what you want. The origin of the term "lobbying" comes from the days of President Ulysses Grant who frequented the lobby of a hotel in Washington DC, where he liked to drink and smoke cigars and people who wanted to influences ideas or ask him to consider certain laws and policies would literally just show up there and talk to him (this is likely apocryphal but you get the idea)

Like Elon would be influenced to stop anything bad he does by public shaming. Not a chance

Hit 'em where it hurts: Their wallets and their egos.

@@Attaxalotl yeah especially those egos!

Maybe we should make obtaining a career pilots license something people can get financial aid for, something that should be done for other skilled positions in which there is a shortage.

this is a really good point, thanks for sharing!

@@erinmac4750you can get financial aid. You pretty much have to be female or a minority to get aid.

@@michaellee6016 yeah that’s how some airlines run their flight academies. But most airlines have already offered financial aid in terms of their pilot academies to all

They said raising taxes on the fuel that the private planes are using. So companies that hire their planes out will add that cost onto the cost they charge the person hiring the plane. People who own the planes outright will have to pay the tax on how much fuel they burn during their flight. It is the people who own the planes that will pay the extra, not the airports. And how many private pilots have private jets to just fly around the country. The tax is based on fuel used, not fuel acquired.

They already did that. Like literally years ago.

they should absolutely recieve no breaks. what happened to separation of church and state? also just like all other corporate entities, big religions get the biggest breaks, and new religions aren't allowed to be considered religions. it's a government funded monopoly and needs to be shut down.

Broke: complain about churches not paying taxes Woke: become a church so you don't have to pay taxes

@@dvdv8197 time to rerun it

@@thewhitefalcon8539the woke toddler can see that churches are a scam. You don’t need to pay a tithe to be spiritual or have a sense of community.

What you're suggesting doesn't really make any sense. the tsa, and specifically airport security checkpoints that you pass through as a passenger, are not there to stop anything except security threats to the flight itself there that is people bringing on weapons or explosives or something like that. this is pretty irrelevant on a private plane because of someone wants to hijack destroy their own plane mid-flight than no amount of security checks would stop that, they are either flying the plane themselves or the pilot works for them. It would make about as much sense as having Security checks before people got into their own car so that they don't have any weapons they're going to use to take control of the car and then run over pedestrians. (I would also point out that in a purely practical sense the TSA is next to useless in terms of providing actual security, and is nothing more than security theater. as numerous repeated and consistent tests have shown, almost anyone with a little bit of skill and planning can bring through many dangerous items in an airport security checkpoint.)

@@Laotzu.Goldbug nobody suggested the checkpoints are pointless. The fact they exist vs none at all is the matter. You're really clueless to how many small private and rural airports smuggle drugs and people?... let alone the national security loopholes. Dont simp its tacky

​@@-in-the-meantime...these smaller airports cannot service international flights, which are the most at risk for contraband

We don't need Maglev, almost all of Europe manages just fine with regular High-Speed Rail; and the continent is about the same size as the Lower 48. Edit: We could have a denser system by going for HSR instead of Maglev; it's much more expensive for minimal improvement.

@@Attaxalotl For traveling from state to state I belive its necessary. Emissions from commercial airlines alone are an enormous detriment

I agree, especially in the highest population areas. This is not something that can be tackled by the private sector, it requires big government just like the interstate highway system did. I don't see any politician talking about it though.

Exactly!

I would say greatly uniformed.

Let's see take a train that will take 2 to 3 days or longer to go cross country or fly for a few hours cross country. And the train will stop a lot of times making a 3 day trip into a 4 day trip. I will fly if I can.

A modern High speed train could go from LA to NYC in 10 hours, assuming it's a straight shot. If we properly subsidized an industry around building them, I'm certain the ingenuity of American engineers could get that travel time down even further. Not sure where you got your figure from but it's probably based on antiquated passenger train data, if not just pulled from the ether. Plains are a blight on our environment, private jet travel especially, which is the focus of this video.

@TheLyricalWrdsmth that would never happen, the route would stop in every town on the route for a minute or two. Planes can run direct routes, trains rarely run a direct run due to the high cost of any rail project. A magnev or hyperloop if it ever becomes possible could replace planes. Any train that runs on tracks will be limited in how fast it can go.

@@jonathanjones3126 It absolutely could happen. How unambitious of you. Maglev*

@TheLyricalWrdsmth the cost to build one maglev train line would extremely expensive, from buying the land off of unwilling people who can fight eminent domain for decades, planning, construction, maintenance, purchasing equipment/building new maintenance facilities, training new people to operate and maintain equipment. The cost to build a nationwide network would probably be in the 10s of trillions.

What she gets, her owning company's investors get 10x more

Are you saying she's an "artist"?! Brand marketer, yes, artist, no.

Not at first it doesn't...But we've had to force them to do it a number of times throughout history and they always seem to swing things back towards servicing themselves over the needs of our entire species/only habitable planet.

@@treeaddict seems that way

@@matthewsanchez7953 yea it doesn’t appear they care too much. Embarrassing, the amount of selfish greee

Ty for posting the update!

do as I say, not as I do! -> Richy Rich

Abi is making the family look bad, heh.

Both political parties are in service to the rich. So, they are not going to.

won't happen unless you make it happen

@@thewhitefalcon8539 Aa better term would be "we."

@@JohnT.4321 no, that's diffusion of responsibility. Someone has to make it happen. One person. Could be anyone here.

@@thewhitefalcon8539 Not really. We have to do it collectively rather than looking for a leader. That means organizing first and then electing leaders who would represent the interests of the people.

Have ya watched any YT vids of Karen's goin' beserk on commercial aircraft in the past 5 yrs? The 4-8 hr delays just sitting on the tarmac unable to exit the aircraft?Dealing w/those nightmares are for the penny-pinching peasants who could've easily pooled their $$ & chartered a private jet, but made a conscious decision not to do that! Happy Travels! 😉🫡

That’s the power of petty!

Jeff Bezos bought a super yacht for about the same percentage of his net worth^ as it would cost the average* Millennial˚ to buy a PS5 ^This includes the massively inflated value of a house nowadays *Mean average, not Median ˚This includes the techbros, bringing the Mean value up

An airliner is bigger than a private jet so it contributes *exponentially* more to wear and tear on the runway. It also needs the the complex baggage handling system, which private jets don't need.

It's been a while for me. I prefer to stay on the ground anyway

Flying is so stressful tbh, I’d only do it if I absolutely had to

Would you suggest he just dump it into the ocean?

@@Laotzu.Goldbug he could have recycled it

@@somefunification 1. Everyone know that recycling, even for small plastic bottles is literally a scam. 2. You can't "recycle" plane, but you can scrap it. However that involves spending money to destroy something perfectly workable. That's even more wasteful.

​@@Laotzu.Goldbug aluminum recycling is real wtf are you talking about. And scrapping it would be one less plane polluting the airways.

@@somefunification a plane is made of more than just aluminum. The scrapping process is often very toxic. More importantly you're making a very faulty assumption that whoever bought the plane from this guy, if they couldn't buy the plane, would just decide not to fly anymore. that's clearly not true. they would have bought a plane from someone else. and if they couldn't have bought a used one then they would have bought a new one. There would still be the same number of planes flying in the air, except now you would have to add in the environmental cost of producing a new one, and this guy's old plane just sitting there resting away doing nothing, or in some scrapping yard. Either way it doesn't make sense. the supply is irrelevant. so long as there is a demand for planes they will be in the sky, wherever they have to be sourced from.

This thread is full of the uniformed, and those angry at their lack of success.

@@MarcPagan And at least one troll.

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It's not fair, the "rich" pay too much. The top 10% earn 50% of all income, yet pay 74% of all income taxes. Explain how that is fair. Time for a flat tax, if one makes above X$. Too many have no skin in the game, and merely vote for perceived "free stuff", that productive people fund.

Tell that to congress as they’re the ones who have to change the tax laws.

No some do own their own. Some rent them out.

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at least they're pretending to represent our interests instead of blatantly supporting the billionaires and tricking us into thinking we want that too