On Mon, 28 Aug 2006 16:04:51 -0400, Ron Rosenfeld
wrote in
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On Mon, 28 Aug 2006 15:26:12 GMT, Larry Dighera wrote:

On 28 Aug 2006 07:57:24 -0700, "jbskies" wrote in
s.com:

FAA wants GA users pay additional user fees that to match the airline
users.

Aren't you comparing the cost of airport facilities to Air Traffic
Control costs?

He may be. But I think a valid point is that if it were not for airline
needs, ATC services would be a small fraction of what they are today.
Ignoring for the moment the validity of user fees at all, GA's "fair share"
should be the incremental cost of providing those services, not the
pro-rata cost.

I don't know the current state of the user fee discussion, but
originally GA was to be exempt from user fees. At least that's what
the Reason Foundation purported.

Of course, it was a divide and conquer strategy.