Airline flights should be taxed much higher than they already are

First of all I would like to point out that human caused global warming is not an established fact but is merely an idea accpeted by some scientists in the scientific community. So your argument is based around an idea that is not globally accepted nor is it even majority accepted and has been challenged continuously. [1] Why would we raise taxes and change the status quo in favor of something that is not accepted by many people? Half of all Americans think that global warming is exaggerated. [6] Changing something in favor o something that isn't wildly accepted is ridiculous. Can you name one modern species pushed to extinction by "global warming"?That being said...Raising Taxes on Airlines Would Push People to Drive You think that raising taxes on the airlines would cause people to ride "trains" instead or think about flying. This premise is laughable firstly because no one is going to take a train instead of flying they would instead turn to the most widely used source of travel in the United States: the car. According to two sources there are roughly 90,000 flights a day [2] [3] while there are 254 million passanger vehicals in the United States [4]. These passangers who would choose not to fly would merely go back to driving. If all 250 or so passangers per flight go back to their cars you haven't done anything to reduce pollution. Also; airline travel is the safest form of travel [5] and forcing people out of the planes and into cars will increase the risk of accident and injury due to car crashes. By implementing your tax plan people will not only continue to damage your precious environment but you will be endangering the people as well with increased risk of car accident.People Need to FlyFlying is essential to a lot of functions of our economy. Businessmen travel a lot and to conduct business and attend business meetings they are required to fly. A father who is on leave from the military and wants to see his family will usually fly from his place of duty. Families traveling to funerals in other states or areas of the country will have to fly to save time and make deadlines. Flying is essential and taxing it more will not reduce demand because people really only fly if they have to. Instead of reducing demand all you will do is put strain on the economy. People who would have a little extra money in their pocket to buy a book or magazine or cool gizmo will now be gone. Savings will be drawn upon to pay the extra price for air tickets. You will be damaging the economy. The price of goods and services will rise because businesses will have to pay more for goods to be shipped and for their business agents to travel. The economy would suffer a huge blow in a similar way that a rise in the price of gas effects it. In conclusion:- Global warming is not universally accepted and changing such massive things as the price of airline tickets for something not wholly accepted as truth is ludicrous- A tax on flying will only lead to an increase in driving which is just as dirty and more dangerous than flying- The demand for flying would not really go down because flying is so essential and instead the economy would be damaged for no reasonTherefore the tax on air travel should not be touched.[1] http://en.wikipedia.org...;[2] http://answers.ask.com...[3] http://answers.yahoo.com...;[4] http://en.wikipedia.org...;[5] http://news.softpedia.com...;[6] http://www.gallup.com...;