{"id":1150288,"date":"2023-07-24T05:30:38","date_gmt":"2023-07-24T05:30:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/?p=289688"},"modified":"2023-07-24T05:30:38","modified_gmt":"2023-07-24T05:30:38","slug":"tax-the-fat-cat-private-jet-class-invest-in-green-transit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2023\/07\/24\/tax-the-fat-cat-private-jet-class-invest-in-green-transit\/","title":{"rendered":"Tax the Fat Cat Private Jet Class, Invest in Green Transit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Senator Edward Markey (D-MA) has just introduced legislation to significantly boost excise taxes on private jet fuel. Representative Nydia Velasquez (D-NY) has introduced complimentary legislation in the House. The colorfully named \u201cFATCAT Act\u201d (standing for Fueling Alternative Transportation with a Carbon Aviation Tax) would hike fuel taxes on private jets from the current 22 cents  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2023\/07\/24\/tax-the-fat-cat-private-jet-class-invest-in-green-transit\/\">More<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2023\/07\/24\/tax-the-fat-cat-private-jet-class-invest-in-green-transit\/\">Tax the Fat Cat Private Jet Class, Invest in Green Transit<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/\">CounterPunch.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2023\/07\/24\/tax-the-fat-cat-private-jet-class-invest-in-green-transit\/\">CounterPunch.org<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Senator Edward Markey (D-MA) has just introduced legislation to significantly boost excise taxes on private jet fuel. Representative Nydia Velasquez (D-NY) has introduced complimentary legislation in the House. The colorfully named \u201cFATCAT Act\u201d (standi&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":295,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1150288"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/295"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1150288"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1150288\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1150289,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1150288\/revisions\/1150289"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1150288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1150288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1150288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}