From: nilknocgeo@earthlink.net

"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.

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