C J Campbell wrote:

User fees will stop some people from flying, but most pilots will probably be
able to cope. The thing that gets me is the unending harassment. It is enough
to make you want to become a hermit. (Actually, I tried that :-) )

User fees, and the associated higher fuel taxes with do more then just
"stop some people from flying". It will slowly and inexorable smother
the aviation business for all except the big airline shops. All of the
small businesses that depend on an active general aviation segment will
founder.

This is nothing more than a very large tax increase. Tax increases slow
down an economy (or a segment thereof) and anyone who has gotten an
education beyond a public school system should know that.

I can no longer fight political battles. I am completely exhausted. You guys
will have to fight the next civil war without me -- and I am convinced that
civil war is inevitable.

I just hope it happens soon... before I am too old to care and participate.


For myself, things have gotten so fouled up that I can no longer get medical
insurance in the state of Washington. Thanks to Mike Lowrie's insurance
'reforms,' there are NO medical insurers willing to cover anyone who does not
work for a big corporation. Group Health and one or two others might do it
for big deductibles and premiums approaching $1000 a month. I am sick of
fighting taxing authorities, insurance companies, and everyone else who has a
hand out. When I die, what the feds don't take, the state will seize the
rest. So it is all for nothing. With problems like that, user fees are just
another gnat sting. Foo.


Sorry to hear you say that, but giving up is exactly what politicians
wnat you to do.... then they have total control of you while you wait
in line (behind a drug addict) for your "universal" health care.