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"Chris" wrote:

"Orval Fairbairn" wrote in message
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In article ,
"Chris" wrote:

"Orval Fairbairn" wrote in message
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"Chris" wrote:

"Jose" wrote in message
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You think that only 5% or so of
the entire FAA budget gets allocated to GA?

As you know, where money is spent isn't the same as where that money
provides the benefit.

The fact is that capital and operating grants to the thousands of
GA
airports are paid mostly by passengers on commercial airliners...

...who benefit by having us spam cans land at those airports instead
of
at
the ones with long lines of jets waiting to take off.

Jose

Land by all means at the airports with the long line of jets waiting
to
take
off but pay $400 for the privilege or the equivalent contribution an
airliner makes. A take off or landing slot has an economic value why
should
GA pay less. Its the law of the market, the principle behind the
economic
growth of the US, or does the principle get suspended when GA is
involved -
smells of pork bellies:-)

Then make good, friendly GA airports available in urban areas.
Federalize the airport system, if necessary. Convert all surplus
military airfields to GA use, instead of restricting their use (a la
Moffett "Federal Airfield"), or letting developers butcher them up (El
Toro, Hamilton, South Weymouth, Glenview, to name a few).

GA on welfare from the taxpayer again

GA making use of costly facilities that Philistine like "Chris" would
otherwise destroy!
Not destroy, put them to the market. If the airports can make money
providing services to pilots them let them do so. If pilots want the
services they would use the airports. Poor services would dies and good
services would flourish.

Is this not free enterprise?

Then, let's stop funding bicycle lanes (in the SF Bay area they get far
more than small airports), parks, golf courses, marinas, sports stadia,
etc. Put them all on the same level and create a vast, dull,
inhospitable place to live.