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39. I understand your reasoning

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But consider for a moment, that roughly 25% of private air travel is philanthropic in nature. Private jets are used to fly sick children around the world to areas where they can receive treatment, they fly Doctors to third world nations where they can provide care. They provide emergency aid during disasters. I could go on, but you get the idea.

There are also other reasons why executives may fly private. The main reason is usually time savings. Flying across country commercial can involve multiple connections and takes all day. Flying private allows the exec to get to where they need to go and make it home for dinner. Not the greatest reason I know, but when your trying to attract top level talent to run a multi billion dollar top level charity, it helps and it makes it a legitimate organizational expense. Also consider things like BLM executives stating they flew private for security reasons.

At the end of the day, trying to get the American people behind taxing private air travel for non-profits while not taxing it for big business is a losing proposition and not one I would suggest the Democratic party get behind. At a minimum it's bad optics.

Just some things to consider.