Can you afford to send your kids to summer camp? According to the New York Post, New York's tony set can -- and more. Instead of forcing their kids to spend 3.5 hours on a crowded bus into the wilds of Vermont, they pay $8,000 for their kids to fly to camp in a private jet.
Keewaydin camp director Peter Hare said that for the first time in the Vermont camp's history, one of its kids, a 12-year-old, will be arriving by private jet, choosing a one-hour flight over a five-hour bus trip from New York. In case you forgot, former Walt Disney Corp. (NYSE: DIS) CEO Michael Eisner loved Keewaydin so much that he wrote a terrible book about it.
But wait, there's more. Charlotte Morello, of Connecticut, has organized a birthday party for her 9-year-old daughter, Meredith, on a private jet next month. "All her cousins will come onto the plane," Morello said. "We'll have a manicurist and a model on the runway theme."
Had enough? It would help if you asked Congress to make private equity partners pay the 35% tax on their earnings that everyone else has to pay.
Peter Cohan is President of Peter S. Cohan & Associates, a management consulting and venture capital firm. He also teaches management at Babson College and edits The Cohan Letter. He has no financial interest in Disney.
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