Posted on 04/27/2013 6:19:00 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Take off and landing fees are used for pork just like our social security funds.
Likely have been since Day 1
Seems to me that the airlines should foot the bill for traffic controllers and airport security. If I don’t travel by air, why should I pay for this service ?
It would be run more economically and better of course but then there would be no place for the TSA union thugs to molest anyone.
Or...it would go bankrupt every five or ten years.
I think the government wants to stay firmly in control of the process.
There are no “cuts”.
There is no reason other than Obama’s political grandstanding for these FAA cuts. Obama is deliberately hurting the American public for cheap political points and that is despicable.
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We don’t have kids why should we pay to educate other parents kids ?
That’s a different question.
For the same reason hubby and I pay out the wazoo in taxes to educate ungrateful, irresponsible future democrat voters in public schools when we have no kids.
Once upon a time, public education was designed to produce quality, participating members of our society.
What happened ?
In one word: unions.
“Seems to me that the airlines should foot the bill for traffic controllers and airport security. If I don’t travel by air, why should I pay for this service ?”
I agree, although not specifically the airlines so much as anyone and everyone who uses the airport. (Including the military & private aviation) Every take off and landing needs to be charged a user fee.
Those fees should go to service the airport from which they were charged. That means smaller less used airports should either charge large rates to cover the overhead or reduce their overheads.
How would you collect those fees, especially at rural airports? Who would collect the fees?
Gas Taxes, landing fees, and parking fees.
Have you been to a small airport before? Even the ones that are not usual manned have infrastructure and were not exactly talking about a population(pioit) generally disposes to ignore or avoid such fees. Particularly ones that call theses airports home for their aircraft.
So i don’t see collection as being a serous problem even for the general aviation population.
“We don’t have kids why should we pay to educate other parents kids ?”
Strictly speaking I don’t agree that you should.
Although it could be argued that :
1: You are paying for your own education.
This argument falls apart if you went to private school or were home-schooled.
2: You could also argue that you have a vested interest in seeing to it that other people’s children grow up with at least a basic enough understanding of free constitutional government as not to become a threat to your rights(and that Constitution) when they become voters.
Of course as the public schools have almost totally neglected theses lessons and as no such legitimate argument on that grounds could be made to justify you spending your money in their education.
Have I been to a small airport before? Yes. I am a charter pilot. I go to several airports every day. I do see collection and the bureaucracy required as a problem.
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