As toby "Chris" Jan 15, 2006 at 01:22 AM

I am eternally grateful to the US taxpayer (sincerely) for the

benefit I get and I hope the money I have spent during my 4 trips and 9
weeks to the US since September 2004 have gone some way to repaying the
debt.

You're quite welcome. I hope you enjoyed the (almost) free ride. But the
debt has increased, and the Aviation Trust Fund is going broke.

The subsidies that you enjoyed will not last long, as user fees or
increased AV gas taxes are
an inevitibility. Even the nefarious AOPA has stated that increased fuel
taxes are a better alternative than user fees. Hopefully, the congress
will see fit to enact both: higher taxes on AVgas as well as user fees
to
cover the free services that GA fliers avail themselves of at the
taxpayers' expense.