Monday, July 03, 2006
French Tax Air Travelers for...AIDS?
French National Imbecile Jacques Chirac instituted a "national tax" on air travelers - to pay for a UN AIDS fund.
This now impacts travelers world-wide...and Chirac, the thief that he is, could care less.
Airline passengers in France face new tax to help world's poor
If France wants to send billions to the UN to waste, that is fine - only the Frogs will suffer. But to institute something that impacts all who happen to have to stop in that hellhole without any other country allowing or okaying it is just another example of why France is a loser of a country, and should be avoided at all costs.
French National Imbecile Jacques Chirac instituted a "national tax" on air travelers - to pay for a UN AIDS fund.
This now impacts travelers world-wide...and Chirac, the thief that he is, could care less.
Airline passengers in France face new tax to help world's poor
Passengers boarding planes in France are now paying a new tax on their tickets to help the world's poor, after the measure came into effect on the weekend.
The tax, championed by President Jacques Chirac and backed by UN Secretary General Kofi Annan, adds a surcharge of between one and 40 euros (1.25 and 50 dollars) depending on the destination and class of seat.
Money raised is to go to an international fund to buy treatments for AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria.
A number of countries -- Brazil, Chile, Cyprus, Congo, Gabon, Ivory Coast, Jordan, Luxembourg, Madagascar, Mauritius, Nicaragua and Norway -- have all signed on to the initiative, and France hopes others will follow suit.
The United States, Canada and Germany, though, oppose the levy, and several airlines have complained that it will simply add to the cost of air travel at a time of high fuel prices.
If France wants to send billions to the UN to waste, that is fine - only the Frogs will suffer. But to institute something that impacts all who happen to have to stop in that hellhole without any other country allowing or okaying it is just another example of why France is a loser of a country, and should be avoided at all costs.
