France Urges Solidarity on New Airfare Tax

We may just be paying a few more dollars per airline ticket in the near future, folks. Forbes reports that French President Jacques Chirac has written a letter to 145 world leaders asking them to stand in solidarity with him on a new airfare tax whose proceeds would go directly to development aid in the third world.

Being a leftist, an idealist and a Francophile, I couldn’t agree more with Chirac’s plan. A few more bucks for a plane ticket in exchange for a better world? I think it’s a fine sacrifice to make.