It is not a "cheap" tax..
for instance.. my wife just had to fly home as her Dad went into the Hospital..
the airlines not wanting to take the heat for the high cost of tickets breaks out a few charges just to show you where the money is going...
JFK has an airport charge of about $100
there is a TSA charge and a fuel surcharge.. (taxes)
on the other side of the pond at Glasgow there are similar airport charges.. but a carbon tax of about $200 is slapped on the ticket depending on the time of year...
if you want to look at it another way Europe is charging each visitor a 20% tax for nothing .....
and it will soon climb again,..
UK carbon tax will balloon under current proposals
According to recent research, the UK's carbon tax is set to almost double again in its third year of implementation after prices within the EU emissions trading system plummeted to an all-time low.
“UK power producers may be exposed to much higher carbon costs should the European Commission be successful in its plan to increase permit prices. In essence, the tax raises the cost of fossil-fueled power production across the country, ahead of costs in neighboring countries. While the government has promised to alleviate higher costs faced by heavy industry, no steps have been made to reduce the burden on domestic consumers. In its third year, the tax may account for about 10 – 15% of the wholesale cost
While the UK claims to be doing everything it can to attract low-carbon energy production, the spiraling cost of this tax may prompt a call to ditch it or change it.”