In the Middle Ages all roads were toll roads. As one travelled, one had
to pay the tolls to whoever controlled the road. As society progressed,
it became evident that it was better public policy for the government
to build the roads with money collected through taxes. We still have
toll roads, and I believe a STRONG argument can be made that they are
not as efficient. But the fact is, both systems work. I personally am
in favor of taxes paying for toll roads. As a pilot, I mostly fly VFR,
and land at airports with no control towers so if I have to pay for FAA
services, I will simply avoid using them as much as possible. It is now
possible to get full preflight weather briefings on the internet or
local computer feed, so there will be little need for me, personally to
use ATC services. I think it would be a mistake to completely privatize
ATC, but I will admit there is a lot of pork in ATC and the FAA, so a
good remaking of the service probably is in order. There are numerous
towered airports that really have no need for a tower whatsoever.
Usually if there is a tower, it is only the commercial airline service
that NEEDS it, general aviation gets along just find without any tower
whatsoever. The Unicom frequency system works well as do the automated
AWOSs.

Flying is all about freedom.