"AJ" wrote in news:1144704355.085254.309920
@e56g2000cwe.googlegroups.com:

From the Cushing (OK) Daily Citizen:

Trouble ahead over small plane fees
By Randall Turk
THE NORMAN TRANSCRIPT (NORMAN, Okla.)

NORMAN, Okla. - A political dogfight is looming over Washington, D.C.
skies this summer as a financially troubled airline industry attempts
to shift some of its financial burden to smaller aircraft.

Essentially, the National Air Transportation Association representing
the airlines is seeking about $2 billion a year in federal tax relief.
To accomplish that, NATA wants general aviation - all aircraft except
commercial airliners and military - to take up the slack. That would
reduce the 7.5 percent "user fees" airline passengers pay.

I only needed to get this far to go "HUH?!?!"

The airlines don't know how to run their business. So instead of
changing their business model, or passing the costs on to their
customers, they want the gov't to stick it to a third party?

As Penn & Teller would say....BULL****!

Think about it. Say I have a business selling crayons. I can't make
my company solvent. So what do I do? Beg the government to tax
those who use pencils and give me the money! What the airlines
propose is just as ludicrous.

Snipola of rest

Brian
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