The Media Shills for User Fees

http://preview.tinyurl.com/35souz

http://preview.tinyurl.com/34p9ap

Huh. No mention of av-gas taxes in either of these articles, nor any
comment on what money-losers other transportation facilities like roads
are.

--
Waddling Eagle
World Famous Flight Instructor

In article 200704160759038930-christophercampbell@hotmailcom,
C J Campbell wrote:

Huh. No mention of av-gas taxes in either of these articles, nor any
comment on what money-losers other transportation facilities like roads
are.

I've seen nearly identical articles come across the newswire from
nearly every state in the past few days. It looks like the airlines'
campaign to be given the NAS has been kicked into high gear.

I saw them via the California Aviation Alliance's email newsfeed.
http://californiaaviation.org/news.htm and select Aviation News
from the left menu to see the past releases.

John
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John Clear - http://www.clear-prop.org/

On 2007-04-16 08:52:41 -0700, (John Clear) said:

In article 200704160759038930-christophercampbell@hotmailcom,
C J Campbell wrote:

Huh. No mention of av-gas taxes in either of these articles, nor any
comment on what money-losers other transportation facilities like roads
are.

I've seen nearly identical articles come across the newswire from
nearly every state in the past few days. It looks like the airlines'
campaign to be given the NAS has been kicked into high gear.

I saw them via the California Aviation Alliance's email newsfeed.
http://californiaaviation.org/news.htm and select Aviation News
from the left menu to see the past releases.

John

Yeah, these are AP articles originating in San Francisco (United must
have a media flack there).

However, a lot of this stuff looks like it was prepared by the FAA.
Perhaps it is time to investigate whether any Federal tax money was
illegally used in preparing these articles.

--
Waddling Eagle
World Famous Flight Instructor

C J Campbell wrote:

However, a lot of this stuff looks like it was prepared by the FAA.
Perhaps it is time to investigate whether any Federal tax money was
illegally used in preparing these articles.


This pales in contrast to the billions this country spends in
other areas, the vast majority is entitlements. The rest is
boondogles, payoff's and earmarks.

"ktbr" wrote in message
...
C J Campbell wrote:

However, a lot of this stuff looks like it was prepared by the FAA.
Perhaps it is time to investigate whether any Federal tax money was
illegally used in preparing these articles.


This pales in contrast to the billions this country spends in
other areas, the vast majority is entitlements. The rest is
boondogles, payoff's and earmarks.

What, it's only 60% of the Federal budget! :~)

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn...021301091.html

Nice little graphic for the numerically challenged.

On Mon, 16 Apr 2007 17:12:33 GMT, ktbr wrote in
:


This pales in contrast to the billions this country spends in
other areas, the vast majority is entitlements. The rest is
boondogles, payoff's and earmarks.


So that makes it okay then? :-(

Larry Dighera wrote:


So that makes it okay then? :-(


According to the OMB the spending for airports, and
transportation projects (etc.) is about the same
percentage of the federal budget today as it was in 1956.

What has gone ballistic is entitlements.

"John Clear" wrote in message
...
In article 200704160759038930-christophercampbell@hotmailcom,
C J Campbell wrote:

Huh. No mention of av-gas taxes in either of these articles, nor any
comment on what money-losers other transportation facilities like roads
are.

I've seen nearly identical articles come across the newswire from
nearly every state in the past few days. It looks like the airlines'
campaign to be given the NAS has been kicked into high gear.


Quite...they run their businesses into the ground, so let's have them run
the NAS.

"C J Campbell" wrote in message
news:200704160759038930-christophercampbell@hotmailcom...
http://preview.tinyurl.com/35souz

http://preview.tinyurl.com/34p9ap

Huh. No mention of av-gas taxes in either of these articles, nor any
comment on what money-losers other transportation facilities like roads
are.

--
Waddling Eagle
World Famous Flight Instructor


AOPA should jump on the bandwagon and call for the immediate cancellation of
all programs at GA airports that don't benefit GA (like passenger terminals,
runway overruns), and further call for a reduction of the fuel tax due to
the 'savings'.

On Mon, 16 Apr 2007 07:59:03 -0700, C J Campbell
wrote:

http://preview.tinyurl.com/35souz

http://preview.tinyurl.com/34p9ap

Huh. No mention of av-gas taxes in either of these articles, nor any
comment on what money-losers other transportation facilities like roads
are.

Am familiar with a local corporate flight department. They operated 2
mid-size bizjets what the NBAA considers to be the "average" number of
flight hours last year.

They paid around $65,000 in FET on fuel last year. For the airlines,
burning the same number of gallons would be around $12,000 in FET.

The really neat factoid is that over half of the $66K was "spent" at
the local FBO, which chooses NOT to file as an "aviation end user" or
whatever they call it. The way I understand the law (as of October
2005 ?) means that $30K or so in FET went into the federal highway
fund.

TC