Commentary

Corporate Jet Tax Will Kill Manufacturing Jobs

By Ashton Ellis
Thursday, September 22 2011

With President Barack Obama threatening to raise taxes on corporate jet purchases, members of private aviation unions are wondering why their manufacturing industry is being singled out for punishment. In a June 29 speech about cutting the deficit, President Obama said six times that buyers of private jets should pay more for the privilege. Since then, the president has repeatedly lumped together oil companies, private jet owners and faceless “millionaires and billionaires” in public remarks designed to build a wedge between everyday Americans and fiscal conservatives opposed…

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