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   "Adam H. Kerman"  wrote in message   
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   > conklin  wrote:   
   >>   
   >>"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."   
   >   
   > Yes, George, they are.   
   >   
      
   You are simply nuts.   
      
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