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

You are simply nuts.

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