Duh. I'm filing this story under "Things I Already Knew."

  • The environment, burning enough fuel to power a car for a year in just one hour.
  • Public safety: Even though private planes incur the same air-traffic control costs as commercial airliners, commercial planes pay for 95 percent of FAA air-traffic control costs in $2,015 in taxes per flight, while just accounting for 73 percent of air control capacity. Private planes only pay $236 per flight in taxes.
  • Tax revenues: Private plane buyers can take a larger deduction their first year owning a new jet.
  • The war on terror: The Department of Homeland Security IDs private planes as a particular risk.

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