On 28 Aug 2005 17:52:13 -0700, wrote:

Scott Moore wrote:
Ok, I admit to making all three of these mistakes, but:

On "meet the press" one of the guests suggested that
Senator McCain was considered the most likely candidate
for Republican Nominee for 2008.

Would McCain, the presdent be able to carry out his
"final solution" of user fees for general aviation that
Senator McCain could not ?

I'm still not convinced that this would be such an awful thing for us.
As I understand, in Canada aircraft under a certain weight (say
12.5k#?) pay an annual assessment rather than a per-flight charge. IIRC
it's like $120/year for a 172-class plane.

We had that in the U.S. for a while during the 1970's. As I recall, a
172-class aircraft paid about $25/year in airspace use taxes, with a
weight-based component above about 2500 pounds GTW. The tax was
dropped because it was determined that the tax cost more to collect
than it generated in revenues.

RK Henry