From: ahk@chinet.com   
      
   conklin  wrote:   
   >   
   >"Stephen Sprunk"  wrote in message   
   >news:llgpad$rc9$1@dont-email.me...   
   >> On 20-May-14 17:29, conklin wrote:   
   >>> "Adam H. Kerman"  wrote in message   
   >>> news:llgi4d$971$2@news.albasani.net...   
   >>>> 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."   
   >>   
   >> They are if they're not collected in proportion to their usage and by   
   >> the provider of what they're using.   
   >>   
   >> The PFC, which is a flat amount per user levied by and collected by the   
   >> airport, is a user fee.   
   >>   
   >> The federal ticket tax, which is levied on the _price_ of the ticket   
   >> (which can vary by 10x for the same amount of airport usage) and   
   >> collected by the federal govt and then doled out to _other_ airports by   
   >> politicians, is not a user fee.   
   >>   
   >> Even though it collects PFC revenue, airline rent revenue, concessions   
   >> revenue, ticket tax subsidies, local direct subsidies, indirect   
   >> subsidies, parking revenues, etc., your beloved RDU _still_ loses   
   >> millions of dollars per year, yet you hold Amtrak to a much higher   
   >> standard?   
   >>   
   >   
   >   
   >You are a revenue denier.   
   >   
   >   
      
   Hah!   
      
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