Not to be outdone by his underling, the President of the AOPA embarks on
his own bit of "objective" journalism:

"The airline association actually stated that it believes that $3 billion
annually should shift to other system users; in other words, general
aviation. Their way to shift the financial burden is to implement user
fees for operations in the ATC system. Easy for the airlines to accept
this method since, as I recently pointed out to Congress, it is the
airline passengers who would pay the fees. However, GA pilots and owners
pay an efficiently collected fuel tax that comes from our own pockets."

OK, sure Phil, the airlines don't actually pay a cent in user fees, only
the passengers do. Right, got it. But then, later in the article he says,


"This is not some benign project because the accompanying spreadsheets of
numbers suggest GA is a major user of the IFR system. Excuse me, but
wasn't and isn't this system designed for the airlines, and GA is a very
incremental user?"

Excuse me indeed. Then wouldn't the user fees be nominal?

I hope he got this part right:
" In a newly introduced topic, the FAA has a question about actually
releasing airports from the important guarantees that accompany federal
funding so federally funded airports will remain open and be available to
all users."