Just looking at some flights for Lizzi to join me on an upcoming trip Down Under. The cheapest we’ve found thus far is $1468 on JAL. Expensive as that already is, the whopper is the fact that $509 comes in the form of taxes and fees. This represents a staggering 53% of the base fare. It’s like a $10 cab fare being automatically bumped to $15.30 thanks to egregious city taxes and mysterious extra charges like road usage and stoplight electricity fees. Just ridiculous. What other industry gets away with tacking on so much in the form of extraneous costs for a service provided?
We’re just getting started with taxes here…wait and see. Trillion dollar deficits, 8% increase in spending with the new budget propsal, universal healthcare proposals. Supposedly tonight, Obama is going to enlighten the country as to how he intends to pay for all of this (we all know the answer!).
America is heading down the same path…Scary!