View Single Post
  #4  
Old July 9th 07, 01:26 PM posted to rec.aviation.piloting
ktbr
external usenet poster
 
Posts: 221
Default The Administrative Cost Of ATC User Fees

wrote:
On Jul 8, 3:46 pm, kontiki wrote:


Take a look at the IRS... collecting processing taxes
(which are essentially "user fees") .. its a MASSIVE bureaucracy
which cost taxpayes an insane amount of overhead.



That's just not a fact. The IRS "bureaucracy" costs roughly $10
billion divided by $2 trillion collected. That only .5% in collection
costs, the most efficient in the world. The FAA originally proposed
an unspecified user fee for just landing/departing Class B. That
could be collected by the Airport Authorities at 30 big airports and
turned over periodically to FAA.


I don't buy those numbers. There are so many hidden costs invloved...
What about the libilites for benefits for all the IRS employees...
the computer equipment, office space, electric bills, printing
costs... storage facilites and processing tax returns.

You also never mentioned the hidden costs (costs employees pay but
don't realize they do). The personnel overhead and the countless
thousands of UNPRODUCTIVE time spent on simply *complying* with IRS
filing and paperwork. There is a 'cost' associated with every single
employee that ultimately comes out of the employees potential income.

The IRS and its miriad of confusing rules and printed publications
cannot be justified.