There are many small airports across the country. These airports have perhaps ten or twenty airplanes at any one time. The control towers are usually staffed. Why should tax payers maintain the sport of so few?
2007-11-01 03:10:47 · 10 answers · asked by Zardoz 7 in Politics & Government ➔ Politics
I'm speaking of state and local taxes.
2007-11-01 03:11:41 · update #1
no -- landing fees should pay for the upkeep and use of the airports
2007-11-01 03:15:08 · answer #1 · answered by de viking 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋
These small airports are part of infrastructure and should be maintained. Where is the next closest airport? 2 or three hours away by car? Train service is essentially non existent. A small airport may not see much traffic but ask what businesses would set up in a town that had no air service? What business would stay? What businesses depend on them?
By the way, most small general aviation airports do not have control towers. Only those with commercial traffic.
2007-11-01 03:19:39 · answer #2 · answered by jehen 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
It really depends on where the airport is.
In my small town in Louisiana, we don't have an airport. I wish we did...
Look at it like this- planes go down from time to time and having a small airport along the flightpath means the airplane full of passengers have at least somewhere decent to land, rather than a cornfield, or my house.
2007-11-01 03:32:28 · answer #3 · answered by Steve A 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Only the locals can know if the airport infrastructure is important enough to their local economy. Personally, I am looking forward to the day we have Jetsons-style flying cars. Those small strips will be the first take-off points for a new airborne infrastructure.
2007-11-01 03:16:31 · answer #4 · answered by ideogenetic 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
No, I wouldn't if general aviation were limited to sport.
It is not. There is a great deal of revenue to be had by way of general aviation. Most of the support structure is private and provides jobs and industry locally.
The airports should be built with the potential for commerce in mind.
Private aviators do pay a great deal of taxes in the form of fees, fuel surcharges, hanger space and a host of other expenses. User fees are about to go through the roof.
Done properly, it's a net gain.
2007-11-01 03:19:54 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋
I do not fly , if I go coast to coast I drive ..why is any of my money keeping up airports ? ..... If business and Industry needs the airports for shipping , let them pay for it ..Not me ..
2007-11-01 03:25:18 · answer #6 · answered by Insensitively Honest 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yes, if they did not i could not land my plane. If i could not land my plane i would cause more greenhoue emissions and global warming, and then Al Gore would never catch Man Bear Pig.
2007-11-01 03:17:54 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
If the people who are to be taxed agree to it . . . it's none of my business.
2007-11-01 03:18:11 · answer #8 · answered by CHARITY G 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
In the interest of safety....yes.
2007-11-01 03:17:59 · answer #9 · answered by rance42 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
yes I do - state and local - yes I do
2007-11-01 03:13:53 · answer #10 · answered by Spartacus 3 · 1⤊ 2⤋