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User Fees
- Thread starter aterpster
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Those taxes go into the federal general fund, not to aviation. Congress has been under no obligation to spend that money on aviation. And GA has traditionally gotten a sweet deal from the current funding setup. All us recreational GA flyers are basically getting subsidized airport and ATC services, so it doesn't surprise me that so many here are opposed to having to actually pay for things they currently get at a substantial discount.Palmpilot said:We already have user fees: they're collected at the gas pump.
The single biggest downside to any tax is that congress stands between the collection and final disbursement. If congress had been out of the funding loop a decade or two ago, user fee funding would have prevented (or at least greatly ameliorated) the ADS-B boon-doggle. That is because an ATC entity void of regulatory authority could not have mandated any such beast. Witness what happened with ADS-B in Canada, which has no plans to mandate ADS-B for GA aircraft. That is because Nav Canada was constrained by it not having authority to mandate such a thing and because the capital cost couldn't be justified by the user base (and Nav Canada is governed by its users: http://www.navcanada.ca/EN/about-us/Pages/governance.aspx)
The NBAA does not represent my interests and may actually be opposed to them. That page gives absolutely no background info of course - just a mindless "No!" to three different things without giving good reasons why:
Oppose Privatized ATC and User Fees
Stop Proposed Per-Flight User Fees
For those interested in the background of what is likely to be proposed and why this subject is even alive (no legislative details have been released; just broad principles,) here is what Rep. Bill Shuster's has recently said:
http://transportation.house.gov/uploadedfiles/aero_club_speech.pdf
http://transportation.house.gov/uploadedfiles/faa_bill_principles.pdf
The current FAA authorization expires in September....
About 1/3rd of their expenses have been paid for by user fees for the past 14 years:MadseasoN said:Is the TSA funded by user fees?
https://www.tsa.gov/stakeholders/historical-fee-collection-data
https://www.tsa.gov/stakeholders/september-11-security-fee-passenger-fee
https://www.tsa.gov/stakeholders/transportation-security-fees