[news] High Flyers and Soaring Inequality

[Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed]

By ROBERT WEISSMAN - June 24, 2008

Private and corporate jet sales are taking off, reflecting an increase in the extreme concentration of wealth in the United States and around the world...But where luxury items like a fancy bottle of wine...are simply a private extravagance, private jet use imposes real costs on everyone who isn't a high flyer -- and on the planet...If such heavy-polluting opulence is to be permitted at all, the super-rich should pay a stiff price for the privilege.  


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