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   "Adam H. Kerman"  wrote in message   
   news:llgi4d$971$2@news.albasani.net...   
   > conklin  wrote:   
   >>   
   >>"Adam H. Kerman"  wrote in message   
   >>news:llflst$8kd$2@news.albasani.net...   
   >>> Sancho Panza  wrote:   
   >>>>On 5/14/2014 10:49 PM, Adam H. Kerman wrote:   
   >>>>>conklin  wrote:   
   >>>>>>"Adam H. Kerman"  wrote:   
   >>>>>>>conklin  wrote:   
   >>>>>>>> wrote:   
   >>>>>>>>>On Tuesday, May 13, 2014 11:23:45 AM UTC-4, conklin wrote:   
   >>>   
   >>>>>>>>>>As far as evidence you simply make it up, like RDU going bankrupt.   
   >>>   
   >>>>>>>>>No one ever said RDU was going bankrupt.   
   >>>   
   >>>>>>>>>What people did say was that RDU required significant subsidies to   
   >>>>>>>>>function.   
   >>>   
   >>>>>>>>>Relevant portions of their financial statements--showing the   
   >>>>>>>>>subsidies--were quoted.  Curiously, you never responded to those   
   >>>>>>>>>specific   
   >>>>>>>>>quotes.   
   >>>   
   >>>>>>>>More nonsense.  Ticket tax money is not a "subsidy."  It is a user   
   >>>>>>>>fee   
   >>>>>>>>paid by users.  And so is the PCF.  And so forth.  And, by the way,   
   >>>>>>>>daily operations pay for the bonds, not the taxpayer.  You don't   
   >>>>>>>>know   
   >>>>>>>>how to read a financial statement.   
   >>>   
   >>>>>>>George, you don't get to re-define an excise tax as a user fee,   
   >>>   
   >>>>>>Sorry you don't understand English.  It is a fee paid by users for use   
   >>>>>>in   
   >>>>>>air travel.  It is not a subsidy.   
   >>>   
   >>>>>No, that would be airfare. If the airport isn't subsidized, I still   
   >>>>>want   
   >>>>>to know why the airport gets to collect an excise tax on passengers in   
   >>>>>addition to rent paid to it by airlines. Why isn't rent sufficient to   
   >>>>>operate the airport and retire its construction bonds?   
   >>>   
   >>>>Because that is how the agency running the airport chooses to finance   
   >>>>its capital and operating budgets.   
   >>>   
   >>> If the airport cannot retire its debt nor operate on revenues it   
   >>> receives   
   >>> from rent from airlines, it's being subsidized   
   >>   
   >>   
   >>This idiot does not know the difference between landside and airside.  It   
   >>is   
   >>hopeless to talk to such people.   
   >   
   > An airport authority can still collect rent from landside tenants to use   
   > for operations and to retire debt. That's not subsidy.   
   >   
   > Still want to hear from George as to why special taxes on passengers are   
   > required if the airport isn't being subsidized.   
      
   Taxes on passengers are not "subsidies."   
   Are you a climate denier too?:   
      
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