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We're soo far from this though. Air fuel is taxed very little due to the Chicago convention.

How much should it be taxed to factor in the external cost?



> How much should it be taxed to factor in the external cost?

I don't know. But that can be treated as a technical problem to figure out. (Problems being technical is good! Much more tractable than political or social problems.)

> Air fuel is taxed very little due to the Chicago convention.

I'm not quite sure how much the Chicago convention would hinder a clever law drafter. Judging by what I can see at Wikipedia on it, I would imagine you could technically tax not kerosene itself, but the burning of kerosene inside your airspace.




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