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it's just that every time i hear ''well we're short x amount of dollars, we need to tax x amount and we'll be okiedokie''. well that never works because of diminishing returns. the thought of something like the tsa even being neccessary never occurs to them at all, the first solution to every problem is to tax more. its a very static, elementary way to look at economics.
I don't think anyone is arguing that. Instead the argument is between people who think that there should be absolutely no new taxation and 100% draconian cuts and people who think there should be some tax increases coupled with some cuts.
There is some point of diminishing efficiency as taxes get to high, but there is also diminishing efficiency as taxes get to low. I would say we are much closer to the latter then the former.
I don't think anyone is arguing that. Instead the argument is between people who think that there should be absolutely no new taxation and 100% draconian cuts and people who think there should be some tax increases coupled with some cuts.
There is some point of diminishing efficiency as taxes get to high, but there is also diminishing efficiency as taxes get to low. I would say we are much closer to the latter then the former.
61.00 goes to the Gov for taxes for every 300.00 spent on a airline ticket. So raising rates would be devastating for airlines.
Even with this article posting in Feb of this year He once again is going to propose airline ticket taxes. To pay for security
How about giving it to the private sector and taking it away from the gov!
Airlines Say Obama Ticket Fee Plan May Hurt Demand
February 16, 2011, 9:55 AM EST Airlines Say Obama Ticket Fee Plan May Hurt Demand - Businessweek
Proposed airline ticket tax bump has tempers soaring
Sept. 2011
Impose a $100 fee on each commercial airliner and corporate jet every time they take off. Only military planes and small planes with piston engines would be excluded from the new take-off fee.
•Raise the per-passenger security fee, which helps pay for the Transportation Security Administration's airport screening, from the current $2.50 for each leg of a flight to a maximum $5 for a one-way trip to a flat $5 one way. The fee also would rise another 50 cents a year from 2013 through 2017 to $7.50. The Homeland Security Department could raise it further through regulation.
The president's goal is to raise $36 billion to help trim $4 trillion off the deficit in the next decade and get more so-called user-fee money to underwrite aviation security, airport improvement and air traffic control.
oh, of course: airlines aren't in enough trouble financually, let's raise the ticket prices so fewer people will be able to fly...I am embarrassed to admit this but I think I am one of those who would vote for anybody but Obama.
The chances of that happening are just as high as a conservative president coming up with a good exit strategy before starting a useless war.
and since when do 2 wrongs make a right? We are not talking about Bush right now, well most of us aren't, you seem to think we still are living 8 years ago..
and since when do 2 wrongs make a right? We are not talking about Bush right now, well most of us aren't, you seem to think we still are living 8 years ago..
Nita
Bush did create the TSA without budgeting costs of the agents and the full body scanners.
Basic understanding of liberal economic philosophy-money shortfall, tax more, absolutely no side effects. I mean do liberals ever think beyond stage one of any economic proposal?
No. They never think about the means, only the end result.
All the more reason to get rid of the TSA and allow the airlines, passenger rail, and bus companies to be responsible for their own security.
Great idea, except when and if that handoff occurs and terrorists get ahold of a plane again, who would be blamed? Oh the administration that allowed said transfer of security.
Hey guys, anyone remember Sept 11? Ummm, cut the TSA and what would you get again? There is a reason why the government has thrown untold millions at counter terrorism and security and the reasoning is that it works. It protects all of us. There are still plenty of people out there who hate us and I for one do not care for the idea of being their victim.
CUT is a 4 letter word to this administration.
They would rather not pass a budget and do emergency spending instead.
They would rather raise the debt ceiling than cut back on current spending.
They still spend and say "but it's paid for" with no clue where the money will come from.
You're not going to get taxed..you'll get fee'd to death instead.
Your right, i tell ya this is the joker administration. And they have no freaking clue.
What they are very good at, are imposing fees on us.
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