The airlines are ALREADY heavily taxed!!!!

The impact of taxes and fees on service
-passengers are price sensitive(heavy taxes = high gas prices, ticket price increase, close to no one flying, end of airline industry, decrease in economy and being the most heavily taxed industry would really put the economy at risk of as much as a possible depression)
-airlines face a higher tax burden than any other industry on the Federal level
-airlines claim that they are unable to pass such taxes and fees on their customers
-additional taxes are being levied on an industry already collapsing under its current tax burden.
-as it is now, airlines are already in debt. They need support from the government not increase in taxes. They have requested that the government could roll back taxes and fees and/or security costs, governments could also change regulations to allow airlines to publish fares before taxes.

The Aviation industry is the most heavily taxed industry. Plus The currently high gas prices make the airlines have to raise the price of a plane ticket. If airline taxes were increased to an even higher unspeakable amount, the airlines would not make any business becasue people wouldn't fly. Now that might be the point of raising taxes However If no one flies, the environment will not be hurting but the economy will!!! The airline industries would have to shut down creating many unemployed, starving and possibly homeless people. Since the government makes most of their money off of airline taxes, there will be a decrease in the economy and this will pave the road for a possible depression. In Conclusion, must the airline industry in a sense be completely eliminated?!?! Airplane travel is the fastest growing soucre of emissions. However, airplane travel only accounts for 3 percent of global greenhouse gas emissions. The creation of a more heavily taxed airline industry would hurt the economy and really would not make such a tragic impact on improving the environment.