From: nilknocgeo@earthlink.net

"Adam H. Kerman"  wrote in message
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> 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."
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