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wrote in message oups.com... All produced for customers biased towards GA, using statements like "estimates and multipliers". What is your evidence that they were all produced for customers biased towards GA? The 190,000 operation of DuPage can afford another paying another $35 each and GET OFF MY PERSONAL HOME'S PROPERTY TAX BILL! Only those that use DPA are paying to operate the airport. You are paying nothing to operate the airport, even though you benefit from it's presence. You are a moocher. |
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"Andrew Gideon" wrote in message online.com... Then where has the $300 over 15 years on my residential property tax bill gone? In the salaries of employees at the airport, all of whom suffer payroll taxes, use what money is left to purchase items on which there is sales tax, etc. It funds operations at the airport like maintaining the surface, necessary so pilots can land there, tie down, and leave the airport grounds. That's not correct. No property tax revenue is used for DPA airport operating costs. |
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Free listening on a blanket in the park. That's for moochers. The PUBLIC PARKS are open until 2300, by your criteria boaters docked there listening are moochers too. 2. Jets didn't land at Meigs. The folks who flew out of Meigs were specifically NOT jet-setters. Others have reputed this. Few jets could use Meigs, the runway was only 3899' long and runway 18 had a displaced threshold leaving only 3350' available for landing traffic. a post by your friends of NORTHERLY ISLAND: Meigs provides huge economic benefits to the downtown business district of Chicago. Calculations based on a 1993 City of Chicago study indicate that--using extremely conservative assumptions--Meigs contributes a minimum of 1,500 jobs and $57.3 million annually to the local economy, and perhaps 10 or more times those numbers. A survey indicates that 76% of arriving (non-airline) aircraft are in Chicago to do business downtown. The large majority of these are large twin engine turboprop or executive jet aircraft, 4. Companies like Clear Channel and TicketMaster will give back much more to the local community than the aviation businesses based at Meigs? AV moved to MDW, a great savings due to economies of scale: fuel, mech, fire etc. already there. BooKoo GA capacity in CGX area. GA capacity in the CGX area has been zero since CGX was closed. MDW is 8 miles to the southwest. 4800 West, 5500 South. The common taxpayer was swindled into subsidizing another Media Conglomerate winfall project... The revenues from Clear Channel will fund future park facilities on NORTHERLY ISLAND. No mooching from taxpayers. The revenues from Clear Channel will find their way to Daley's pocket. The taxpayers lost an asset when Meigs was closed, they didn't need another park. What is YOUR EVIDENCE, do you process the mayor's tax return? Congratulations! Its a great addition, air pollution will be reduced as people don't need to drive to remote concert sheds. It's a loss. Parks were surplus in Chicago, they're short on airports. Again, what's YOUR evidence that the CPD has a park surplus? JG |
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Judah wrote:
But these people are not rich people, just ordinary people who use aircraft like you would use your car because it suits their needs better. Many fly planes that sell for prices that are in the same range as a luxury car. (There are even planes that can be purchased for less than a Hyundai!) Even if we assume that some of these recreational and business visitors arrive by jet, that just means that they'd have brought more money to spend in the local economy (on the assumption that jet's cost more and therefore those in jets have more to spend {8^). That money is now going elsewhere. - Andrew |
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wrote in message oups.com... The PUBLIC PARKS are open until 2300, by your criteria boaters docked there listening are moochers too. Isn't partaking of something paid for by someone else your definition of mooching? a post by your friends of NORTHERLY ISLAND: Meigs provides huge economic benefits to the downtown business district of Chicago. Calculations based on a 1993 City of Chicago study indicate that--using extremely conservative assumptions--Meigs contributes a minimum of 1,500 jobs and $57.3 million annually to the local economy, and perhaps 10 or more times those numbers. A survey indicates that 76% of arriving (non-airline) aircraft are in Chicago to do business downtown. The large majority of these are large twin engine turboprop or executive jet aircraft, Yes, closing CGX was a terrific blunder. MDW is 8 miles to the southwest. 4800 West, 5500 South. I see we agree on something. What is YOUR EVIDENCE, do you process the mayor's tax return? What is my evidence of what? Again, what's YOUR evidence that the CPD has a park surplus? Look at a map. Most of the lakeshore is occupied by parks. |
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Steven P. McNicoll wrote: wrote in message oups.com... The PUBLIC PARKS are open until 2300, by your criteria boaters docked there listening are moochers too. Isn't partaking of something paid for by someone else your definition of mooching? The PUBLIC PARKS are open until 2300, no alcohol. The view is spectacular, a great skyline and Soldier Field, NFL mega-mooch for another n.g.. There happens to be some familiar amplified sound in the area and the local harbor guards don't question anyone stopping and listening. Maybe a young kid will listen and be inspired to learn music, or they can drop in LANSING for a plane ride, their choice. a post by your friends of NORTHERLY ISLAND: Meigs provides huge economic benefits to the downtown business district of Chicago. Calculations based on a 1993 City of Chicago study indicate that--using extremely conservative assumptions--Meigs contributes a minimum of 1,500 jobs and $57.3 million annually to the local economy, and perhaps 10 or more times those numbers. A "calculation" thats "perhaps" wrong by a factor of TEN. MDW is 8 miles to the southwest. 4800 West, 5500 South. I see we agree on something. Which is it? 8 or 4 miles like you posted in 2003: I'm not familiar with the area, and too lazy to look it up, but is there another airport with-in gliding distance? Midway is about four miles southwest.---Steven Your postings indicate and out of state residency and Steven or RON wants to dictate municipal facilities to 3 million residents. What is YOUR EVIDENCE, do you process the mayor's tax return? What is my evidence of what? "The revenues from Clear Channel will find their way to Daley's pocket." Again, what's YOUR evidence that the CPD has a park surplus? Look at a map. Most of the lakeshore is occupied by parks. Most? Portions occupy the space between LSD and the lake, and portions are private residencies and industrial. What's your standard for adequate public parks, for 3 million people? JG |
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