Most of us don’t get to fly on private jets, but our taxes help fund them

Just a tiny portion of the population flies on private jets, but those jets make an outsized impact on the planet. And though most Americans don’t fly private, they’re helping subsidize those flights through their taxes. That’s according to a new report by the Institute for Policy Studies (IPS), which lays out these impacts of the private jet industry and what it calls the “high cost of private jet excess.” When it comes to the climate impacts, private jets are particularly polluting....