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Ap Artilce bashes GA
An AP article that starts out "SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — The federal government has taken billions of dollars from the taxes and fees paid by airline passengers every time they fly and awarded it to small airports used mainly by private pilots and globe-trotting corporate executives." gives a very negative spin to GA and our opposition to "User fees" The article is available on the excite site, but may require free registration to read. http://money.excite.com/jsp/nw/nwdt_...=ap-d8oh58q00& They have just enough facts mixed with the misinformation to make it dangerously misleading. |
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Ap Artilce bashes GA
sounds like a letter to the editor writing campaign in the offing..
let all those people know that GA aircraft also contribute to the same fund through additional fuel taxes on aviation fuel and that a disproportionate amount of dollars spent from the fund go to large "airline hub" airports and not the small GA airport, and also that the fund contributes to the FAA "general fund" to maintain ATC and aids to radio navigation. BT (sorry roger, meant to hit reply to group) "Roger (K8RI)" wrote in message ... An AP article that starts out "SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - The federal government has taken billions of dollars from the taxes and fees paid by airline passengers every time they fly and awarded it to small airports used mainly by private pilots and globe-trotting corporate executives." gives a very negative spin to GA and our opposition to "User fees" The article is available on the excite site, but may require free registration to read. http://money.excite.com/jsp/nw/nwdt_...=ap-d8oh58q00& They have just enough facts mixed with the misinformation to make it dangerously misleading. |
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"Roger (K8RI)" wrote in message .. . An AP article that starts out "SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - The federal government has taken billions of dollars from the taxes and fees paid by airline passengers every time they fly and awarded it to small airports used mainly by private pilots and globe-trotting corporate executives." gives a very negative spin to GA and our opposition to "User fees" The article is available on the excite site, but may require free registration to read. http://money.excite.com/jsp/nw/nwdt_...=ap-d8oh58q00& They have just enough facts mixed with the misinformation to make it dangerously misleading. On Sun, 15 Apr 2007 13:14:07 -0700, "BT" wrote in : sounds like a letter to the editor writing campaign in the offing.. let all those people know that GA aircraft also contribute to the same fund through additional fuel taxes on aviation fuel and that a disproportionate amount of dollars spent from the fund go to large "airline hub" airports and not the small GA airport, and also that the fund contributes to the FAA "general fund" to maintain ATC and aids to radio navigation. BT (sorry roger, meant to hit reply to group) GA is under attack by the airlines with all the unrestrained zeal and mendacity of a Karl Rove campaign to usurp the US Constitution. Make no mistake. It is part of the job of government to maintain the nation's transportation infrastructure. To fail to fund the needs of all airports would weaken our nation. What a biased and shortsighted point of view for a journalist to take. I'll have to give the AP article a read. |
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Larry Dighera wrote: "Roger (K8RI)" wrote in message .. . An AP article that starts out "SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - The federal government has taken billions of dollars from the taxes and fees paid by airline passengers every time they fly and awarded it to small airports used mainly by private pilots and globe-trotting corporate executives." gives a very negative spin to GA and our opposition to "User fees" The article is available on the excite site, but may require free registration to read. http://money.excite.com/jsp/nw/nwdt_...=ap-d8oh58q00& They have just enough facts mixed with the misinformation to make it dangerously misleading. On Sun, 15 Apr 2007 13:14:07 -0700, "BT" wrote in : sounds like a letter to the editor writing campaign in the offing.. let all those people know that GA aircraft also contribute to the same fund through additional fuel taxes on aviation fuel and that a disproportionate amount of dollars spent from the fund go to large "airline hub" airports and not the small GA airport, and also that the fund contributes to the FAA "general fund" to maintain ATC and aids to radio navigation. BT (sorry roger, meant to hit reply to group) GA is under attack by the airlines with all the unrestrained zeal and mendacity of a Karl Rove campaign to usurp the US Constitution. Make no mistake. It is part of the job of government to maintain the nation's transportation infrastructure. To fail to fund the needs of all airports would weaken our nation. What a biased and shortsighted point of view for a journalist to take. I'll have to give the AP article a read. Hey, Larry: Please don't forget those stalwarts of the Left, such as Sens. Barbara Boxer and Diane Feinstein, who refer to GA pilots as "hobby pilots" who don't deserve any rights. Also look at Charlie Shumer's record re GA. |
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Ap Artilce bashes GA
On Mon, 16 Apr 2007 04:29:03 GMT, Orval Fairbairn
wrote in : Please don't forget those stalwarts of the Left, such as Sens. Barbara Boxer and Diane Feinstein, who refer to GA pilots as "hobby pilots" who don't deserve any rights. Also look at Charlie Shumer's record re GA. It's not about politics. It's about the airline manufacturers and operators attempting to wrest control of the NAS from the government/people. If you have something to say about the politicians you mention, how about putting forth the effort to provide some supporting citations to bolster your assertions? |
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Ap Artilce bashes GA
On Mon, 16 Apr 2007 02:44:45 GMT, Larry Dighera
wrote in : I'll have to give the AP article a read. Bob Porterfield's AP article echoes the rhetoric of the large corporate mouthpiece, Robert Poole's Reason Foundation. It is The Reason Foundation who is the most vocal advocate of privatizing ATC, and now he's attacking GA. Here's my comment on Porterfield's article printed in the Sacramento Bee: General Aviation is under attack by the airlines with all the unrestrained zeal and mendacity of a Karl Rove campaign to usurp the US Constitution. Make no mistake. It is part of the job of government to maintain the nation's transportation infrastructure. To fail to fund the needs of all airports would weaken our nation. What a biased and shortsighted point of view for a journalist to take. Mr. Porterfield was obviously taken in by The Reason Foundation's Mr. Poole who is apparently a spokesman for large corporations. NASA's and FAA's vision of the future for air travel, Small Aviation Transportation System (SATS), is based on small airport infrastructure as an alternative to short-range automotive trips for both private and business transportation needs. If I could find Mr. Porterfield's e-mail address, I'd send him a comment too. |
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Ap Artilce bashes GA
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Larry Dighera wrote: On Mon, 16 Apr 2007 04:29:03 GMT, Orval Fairbairn wrote in : Please don't forget those stalwarts of the Left, such as Sens. Barbara Boxer and Diane Feinstein, who refer to GA pilots as "hobby pilots" who don't deserve any rights. Also look at Charlie Shumer's record re GA. It's not about politics. It's about the airline manufacturers and operators attempting to wrest control of the NAS from the government/people. I agree with this assessment. the airlines wish to control the NAS, without directly paying to support it. They pay no fuel taxes for use on scheduled services and pass the ticket tax to their customers. The article cited (it appeared in our local paper today) reads like a press release from the Reason Foundation's Poole and the Air Transport Assn, with a few bits of rebuttal from the GA side. If you have something to say about the politicians you mention, how about putting forth the effort to provide some supporting citations to bolster your assertions? OK: Boxer: When she was a Marin County Supervisor, she fought (successfully) against conversion of Hamilton AFB to a GA airport, claiming that it would turn it over to the "hobby pilots." She has never been a friend of GA. Her political friends were partners in the real estate development company that finally obtained the lion's share of the property. Google "Hamilton Landing". Feinstein: She has used the same pejorative term and, again is no friend. Shumer: As a Congressman, he introduced mandatory flight plan legislation (fortunately it went nowhere). Remember, too, that these people are "champions of the poor" and wish to portray GA as a "rich man's activity." As such, they will vote to soak us as much as possible. |
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Ap Artilce bashes GA
Orval Fairbairn wrote:
snip Boxer: When she was a Marin County Supervisor, she fought (successfully) against conversion of Hamilton AFB to a GA airport, claiming that it would turn it over to the "hobby pilots." She has never been a friend of GA. Her political friends were partners in the real estate development company that finally obtained the lion's share of the property. Google "Hamilton Landing". Feinstein: She has used the same pejorative term and, again is no friend. Shumer: As a Congressman, he introduced mandatory flight plan legislation (fortunately it went nowhere). Remember, too, that these people are "champions of the poor" and wish to portray GA as a "rich man's activity." As such, they will vote to soak us as much as possible. The same people, their spouses, and best "buddies" fly in their private or chartered jets - whoops that's GA. When was the last time, they flew "cattle car"? |
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Roy Epperson writes:
The same people, their spouses, and best "buddies" fly in their private or chartered jets - whoops that's GA. When was the last time, they flew "cattle car"? Even if GA is outlawed, there will always be exceptions for the people doing the outlawing. -- Transpose mxsmanic and gmail to reach me by e-mail. |
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