Originally Posted by
Dan
We pay for 'normal' services (airports, weather, ATC, etc) through the fuel taxes, just like we pay for police and fire protection through our local state taxes. Since this is a 'special' event that requires special services, the way it is being presented is that it requires a special fee. I don't think it is right, but it may be necessary. The biggest thing I think is that we should not have to pay for all the 'built in' government inefficiencies. If they could figure out what the real cost was then it may be more bearable. Just like some of the security at a NFL football game, maybe we should pay the controllers x number of dollars per hour for their help and then we take over all the other expenses (printing the notam (do we pay for that already?), etc)...