There are a variety of taxes that a person pays when buying an airline ticket. One tax is called the LUST fuel tax. LUST stands for leaking underground storage tank. The LUST tax is to establish a trust fund to provide money for oversight and corrective action against owners of leaking underground storage tanks and provides money for cleanup of LUST sites where the owner or operator is unknown. Is it efficient for customers of airlines to beforced to pay the tax?

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There are a variety of taxes that a person pays when buying an airline ticket. One tax is called the LUST fuel tax. LUST stands for leaking underground storage tank. The LUST tax is to establish a trust fund to provide money for oversight and corrective action against owners of leaking underground storage tanks and provides money for cleanup of LUST sites where the owner or operator is unknown. Is it efficient for customers of airlines to beforced to pay the tax?

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