The Obama budget appears to be resurrecting the ghost of President Bush’s aviation user fees. This spectre which appeared dead in ‘08 lives again in a footnote buried in the new 2010 budget calling for about $7 billion of taxes to be replaced by “direct user charges”.
This proposal may put at odds the business aviation [...]
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Was it only last fall that people were chanting “drill, baby, drill!”, and declaring everyone from the government to your grandmother must “go green!”? Remember $8.00 a gallon 100LL and paying for pillows and blankets on US commercial flights?
Given the furor over global warming and energy prices, how is it possible that an aviation [...]
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