If we need "shared sacrifice" in the United States, seems there are lots of people with a lot more to sacrifice than those who get by on Social Security and Medicare. The very rich -- and their kids -- are doing pretty darn well:
For decades, parents in the Northeast who sent their children to summer camp faced the same arduous logistics of traveling long distances to remote towns in Maine, New Hampshire and upstate New York to pick up their children or to attend parents’ visiting day.Yep, private jets to summer camps. These are the people that John Boehner and his GOP colleagues think are protecting from higher taxes.
Now, even as the economy limps along, more of the nation’s wealthier families are cutting out the car ride and chartering planes to fly to summer camps. One private jet broker, Todd Rome of Blue Star Jets, said his summer-camp business had jumped 30 percent over the last year.
This weekend, a popular choice for visiting day at camps, private planes jammed the runways at small rural airports.
