Members of the irrelevant G8 conference are proposing an income distribution scheme whereby evil rich people pay extra for their airline tickets. France and Germany are pushing the measure, which would distribute the money amongst the poorer nations, presumably after it filters through several layers of corrupt bureaucracy. Oh and it will also solve Global Warming.

[British Airways] said the notion of the tax was "illogical". A spokeswoman said: "There is no justification for singling out airline passengers for an additional tax to fund development in the Third World."

She said it was hard to see why aid for small business in Mozambique should be funded in part by a family travelling from Glasgow to Malaga for a holiday.

A spokesman for easyJet said the proposal was "confused". "Why only target airline passengers - why not bus passengers?" he asked. "If you want to go after a particular industry why not go after the oil industry, where companies such as BP and Shell make record profits."

Yeah, don't go after us, we're just consumers. Take it out on "Big Oil", because we airlines won't be impacted at all by increasing oil prices. [/sarcasm]

But John Stewart, the chairman of Transport 2000, a pressure group, said the proposal was a step forward as the aviation industry was undertaxed.

"Aviation is a great contributor to global warming and it is African countries which will be the greatest sufferers from it," he said. "It seems there is a logic about a tax on aviation, which is a great polluter, to help those will be the top victims. It could be a Live Aid of the air."

Heh. Well, I would hate to see anyone go undertaxed.

For those of you keeping score on the cliches, thats:

Those greedy bastards at Big Oil

Global Warming, poor blacks hardest hit

The poor 'woe is me' airlines on the brink of bankruptcy

The rich air travelers not paying their fair share of taxes

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