http://www.concurringopinions.com/archives/2007/08/flying_the_stra.html The Law, the Universe, and Everything Tue, 14 Feb 2012 11:44:40 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://www.concurringopinions.com/archives/2007/08/flying_the_stra.html/comment-page-1#comment-52663 Doug Wed, 26 Sep 2007 16:35:10 +0000 http://www.solove.org/archives/2007/08/flying-the-stratified-skies.html#comment-52663 Ok... so the airline pays 10 times as much in fees. The logic of increasing the fees on the corporate flyer only makes sense if you think about it from the perspective of number of aircraft. When you consider that a single commercial aircraft will carry, on average, more than 10 times the number of people, then the per-person cost of those fees is actually very comparable for the commercial airline versus the corporate flyer. "Edna" is NOT paying 10 times as much. She will pay a small percentage of the cost that the airline will pay to the FAA for using the services. Those costs are spread out over many passengers. And let's face facts... the FAA is the government and higher taxes on private aircraft only serve to fatten an already bloated beaurocracy. The government NEVER has enough money, no matter how much they have. And let's keep in mind WHO will pay for the higher taxes and fees that the corporations will pay: It certainly won't be the corporations who fly the corporate aircraft. Those costs (imposed by government) will be passed on to the customer who purchases the products made by the companies. Ultimately, higher fees hurt everyone with only one exception: The government. Ok… so the airline pays 10 times as much in fees. The logic of increasing the fees on the corporate flyer only makes sense if you think about it from the perspective of number of aircraft. When you consider that a single commercial aircraft will carry, on average, more than 10 times the number of people, then the per-person cost of those fees is actually very comparable for the commercial airline versus the corporate flyer. “Edna” is NOT paying 10 times as much. She will pay a small percentage of the cost that the airline will pay to the FAA for using the services. Those costs are spread out over many passengers. And let’s face facts… the FAA is the government and higher taxes on private aircraft only serve to fatten an already bloated beaurocracy. The government NEVER has enough money, no matter how much they have. And let’s keep in mind WHO will pay for the higher taxes and fees that the corporations will pay: It certainly won’t be the corporations who fly the corporate aircraft. Those costs (imposed by government) will be passed on to the customer who purchases the products made by the companies. Ultimately, higher fees hurt everyone with only one exception: The government.

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