From: ahk@chinet.com

conklin  wrote:
>
>"Adam H. Kerman"  wrote in message
>news:llgi4d$971$2@news.albasani.net...
>> 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."

Yes, George, they are.

>Are you a climate denier too?:
>
>

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