Chew On This
Here it comes. Just like I told you.
User fees proposed for air traffic services
"WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Bush administration proposed on Monday that airlines pay billions in user fees to replace ticket and other taxes that currently underwrite much of the nation's air traffic control system."
STOP ! DROP ! ROLL ! Okay, you’re not on fire and no alien has sucked your brain out in the last five minutes. Let’s think about this.
“The Bush Administration” hasn’t “proposed” that any business pay anybody “billions” since it took office. It isn’t doing so now. Airlines collect billions in taxes now. Take a look at your next airline ticket for confirmation. Now, suppose under this new proposed system that the airlines are paying “fees” instead of collecting “taxes.” Do you think the price of your ticket will go down ? Or do you think that the airlines will pass along the price of the “fees” just like they’ve passed along the price of the taxes all these years ?
Two more points along these lines.
Every legacy airline in America is either in or has been in bankruptcy -- except American Airlines. Pan Am, Eastern, TWA and dozens of others are gone. Does that sound like the kind of “customers” you’d want to depend on for your “revenue stream” ?
In addition, if the airlines have to “pay billions” then why are the only people complaining the little guys -- the pilots and businesses that own their own airplanes ? Why aren’t the airlines -- the bankrupt airlines -- screaming bloody murder about a proposal that will make them “pay billions ?”
If you’ll read the article you’ll finally reach this toward the end.
“The Air Transport Association, the main trade group for U.S. airlines, welcomed the proposal. It said carriers already contribute between $9 billion and $10 billion to the FAA budget.”
Seriously, I don’t want you to let me mislead you. I don’t want anyone else to mislead you either. Think about all this. Does it make sense to you ? Or does it look like the airlines -- and your government -- know something that you don’t ?
STOP THE PRESSES
This just in. Russ Chew, the head of the FAA’s Air Traffic Organization has announced he’s resigning.
I bet he knows something that you don’t too.
Don Brown
February 5, 2007
User fees proposed for air traffic services
"WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Bush administration proposed on Monday that airlines pay billions in user fees to replace ticket and other taxes that currently underwrite much of the nation's air traffic control system."
STOP ! DROP ! ROLL ! Okay, you’re not on fire and no alien has sucked your brain out in the last five minutes. Let’s think about this.
“The Bush Administration” hasn’t “proposed” that any business pay anybody “billions” since it took office. It isn’t doing so now. Airlines collect billions in taxes now. Take a look at your next airline ticket for confirmation. Now, suppose under this new proposed system that the airlines are paying “fees” instead of collecting “taxes.” Do you think the price of your ticket will go down ? Or do you think that the airlines will pass along the price of the “fees” just like they’ve passed along the price of the taxes all these years ?
Two more points along these lines.
Every legacy airline in America is either in or has been in bankruptcy -- except American Airlines. Pan Am, Eastern, TWA and dozens of others are gone. Does that sound like the kind of “customers” you’d want to depend on for your “revenue stream” ?
In addition, if the airlines have to “pay billions” then why are the only people complaining the little guys -- the pilots and businesses that own their own airplanes ? Why aren’t the airlines -- the bankrupt airlines -- screaming bloody murder about a proposal that will make them “pay billions ?”
If you’ll read the article you’ll finally reach this toward the end.
“The Air Transport Association, the main trade group for U.S. airlines, welcomed the proposal. It said carriers already contribute between $9 billion and $10 billion to the FAA budget.”
Seriously, I don’t want you to let me mislead you. I don’t want anyone else to mislead you either. Think about all this. Does it make sense to you ? Or does it look like the airlines -- and your government -- know something that you don’t ?
STOP THE PRESSES
This just in. Russ Chew, the head of the FAA’s Air Traffic Organization has announced he’s resigning.
I bet he knows something that you don’t too.
Don Brown
February 5, 2007
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