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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 |
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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 -- John Clear - http://www.clear-prop.org/ |
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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. |
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"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. |
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"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. |
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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? :-( |
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"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'. |
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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. |
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On Mon, 16 Apr 2007 20:07:05 GMT, ktbr wrote in
: What has gone ballistic is [sic] entitlements. Are you able to provide any examples? |
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