by "Tom Conner" Dec 21, 2005 at 03:09 PM



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Skylune continues to show he is internet illiterate and does not
know how to post, or operate a newsreader.
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*See the FAA website for info on the aviation trust fund, and what
sources contribute how much.


If you are going to say "See the FAA website" as an argumentative support
point you need to provide the specific link, and explanation as to how
that
link supports your view.

1. Internet illiterate? Not really, though I wouldn't consider myself a
webmaster type. I choose to use talkabout.net rather than Outlook Express
or other newsreaders. When you use this site and hit the "reply" button,
it doesn't automatically copy the original post.

2. Since you are apparently too internet illiterate to find the relevant
FAA data, I will post it AGAIN, just for your edification.

Now, when you get to the website, you will need to open the excel
spreadsheet showing historical funding trends for the aviation trust fund.
Assuming you get this far, you will see that in fiscal 2004, the Trust
Fund received a total of $9.6 billion. Of that total, $0.04 billion came
from "noncommercial aviation gas taxes."

I revise my opinion that GA AV gases provide a "pittance." It is much
less than a pittance. I stand by my OPINION (shared by the Reason
Foundation, the ATA, and others) that GA is a very heavily subsidized
industry. AOPA knows this, but chooses to make absurd and disingenous
arguments to contend otherwise.

An honest assessment would begin with the expenses GA requires (capital as
well as operating), and compare that to the fees/taxes paid in by the
users. Of course they can't do this, because it would show the obvious.


Skylune out.