The Democrats hate markets. Looking at the comments section, even most of the reliably socialist readers of the NYT wonder what's wrong with auctioning airspace.
To: reaganaut1
Simple to fix... cut off all their federal funding...
2 posted on
08/04/2008 3:59:22 PM PDT by
xcamel
(Conservatives start smart, and get rich, liberals start rich, and get stupid.)
To: reaganaut1
The airport control towers are under federal control. The airlines operate in interstate commerce (a function constitutionally delegated to the federal government by the states).
The NYNJ Port Authority would not be able to block the airport gates like Geo. Wallace tried at the schoolhouse door.
3 posted on
08/04/2008 5:04:08 PM PDT by
Procyon
(To the global warming fanatics the problem is too many people and the solution is genocide.)
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