Most domestic airlines now operate with a meticulously calibrated system aimed at imposing a charge for each degree of misery you choose to eliminate.
"We will introduce legislation to impose a charge on them if we have not seen sufficient progress on a voluntary basis".
On Sunday, Prime Minister Julia Gillard's Labor Party government disclosed the details of its carbon tax, which would impose a charge of 23 dollars on each metric ton of carbon emissions a company produced.
The government plans to impose a charge for any property company conversions into property investment funds, and there could be large up-front tax costs for companies setting up a fund, said Clare Hartnell, a tax partner at accountants Grant Thornton.
Labour will seek to beef up its pitch to voters on immigration with a pledge to pay for 1,000 extra border guards by imposing a charge on visitors from the US and 55 other countries.
High street retailers have been given a year to cut down on the number of plastic bags they hand out to customers or face legislation that will force them to impose a charge on every bag they give away.
8.26pm BST James Ball, the Guardian's data editor, writes that "the Obama administration didn't merely go through the motions" in pursuit of Bradley Manning; military authorities "imposed a charge that should have sparked far greater alarm than it did".
Southwest, which has both low fares and short flights, is imposing a charge of $2 on flights up to 600 miles, $6 for 600 to 900 miles and $8 for longer flights.
Reviews of the merits of freedom of information requests were previously available free of charge through the freedom of information commissioner, but this will be moved back to the administrative appeals tribunal, which is likely to impose a charge of more than $800.
A Kenneth Jacobs, a Yonkers co-op lawyer who also has offices in Manhattan, said that if the proprietary lease permits the co-op to impose a charge of up to 10percentt of net profit on a sale, the board clearly has the power to charge the maximum allowable percentage when it chooses to, even if it chooses to do so on every sale, and even if some boards in Manhattan charge 2percentt.
