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I signed it. The danger that most people are talking about is that the fees won't stay at just $25 for long. This bill will allow the FAA to charge whatever they want in the future. Once there is a system in place that charges user fees soon there will be charges for every stage of the flight, and the costs of just collecting these fees will cause increased fees.

The aviation fuel tax is already in place to charge based on usage, but if it triples then jump ticket prices will skyrocket overnight. Just think how it will affect you if your jump tickets rose to $50+ in October.

The USPA is already involved in this battle.

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how many do you think it will take?



Good question there. You really think government bureaucracy that were not voted to office actually listens to the general population, or at least to general aviators?
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[...You really think government bureaucracy that were not voted to office actually listens to the general population, or at least to general aviators?



Sad, but true....one can always hope, eh?
My reality and yours are quite different.
I think we're all Bozos on this bus.
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By John Hughes
June 6 (Bloomberg) -- Aviation user fees won't be
part of a
U.S. House plan for funding the Federal Aviation
Administration,
Transportation and Infrastructure Chairman James
Oberstar said.
Existing taxes can cover the FAA's budget and
airport
projects for the next five years, Oberstar said in an
interview.
President George W. Bush had proposed a fee that would
pay for
more than half of the FAA's $14.1 billion budget.
``None of what the administration was proposing''
will be
included, Oberstar, a Minnesota Democrat, said in
Washington.
``We're plotting a path to achieving it without the
administration's fees.''
Small-plane owners opposed fees based on airspace
use,
fearing higher costs. Airlines and passengers pay
two-thirds of
costs now through taxes on passenger tickets, fuel,
cargo and
frequent-flier miles.
Even without fees, airlines hope Congress will
require
corporate-jet users to pay more, said David
Castelveter,
spokesman for the Washington-based Air Transport
Association.
``We're tired of subsidizing corporate aviation,'' he
said.
Oberstar said House lawmakers are still drafting
an FAA
proposal that will be ready for an aviation
subcommittee vote
later this month. A Senate panel passed its version of
the plan
May 16. It includes a small-scale version of Bush's
fee that, at
$25 a flight, would collect $400 million a year. Bush
didn't
specify the amount of his fee.
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