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Government Losses to Top $1 Billion After Congress Fails to Reach Deal on FAA
AP via FOX ^ | 08/02/11 | AP via FOX

Posted on 08/02/2011 8:24:03 PM PDT by Doogle

WASHINGTON – The government is likely to lose more than $1 billion in airline ticket taxes because lawmakers have left town for a month without resolving a partisan standoff over a bill to end the partial shutdown of the Federal Aviation Administration.

The government already has lost more than $200 million since airlines are unable to collect taxes on ticket sales because the FAA's operating authority has expired.

The Senate recessed on Tuesday until September, erasing any possibility for quickly resolving the issue. The House left Monday night.

Caught up in the partisan acrimony are nearly 4,000 FAA employees who have been furloughed. The FAA also has issued stop work orders on more than 200 construction projects, threatening the jobs of thousands of other workers. Air traffic controllers, however, remain on the job.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: faa; obamaworld; unions
..the Odumbo way
1 posted on 08/02/2011 8:24:08 PM PDT by Doogle
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To: Doogle

I wonder how many other agencies could be furloughed?


2 posted on 08/02/2011 8:26:59 PM PDT by mlocher (Is it time to cash in before I am taxed out?)
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To: mlocher

It’s a start. Zer0 is for 1800s technology railroads anyway.


3 posted on 08/02/2011 8:31:10 PM PDT by Paladin2
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To: Doogle
So? It's Romadon. Oboma needs the time off. You don't expect them to work on a muslim holiday, do you? Get real.
4 posted on 08/02/2011 8:32:14 PM PDT by concerned about politics ("Get thee behind me, Liberal")
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To: Doogle
The government is likely to lose more than $1 billion in airline ticket taxes because lawmakers have left town for a month without resolving a partisan standoff over a bill to end the partial shutdown of the Federal Aviation Administration.

And, trust me, the airlines couldn't be more thrilled with the Congresscritters

(I wonder how many Congresscritters flew home on vacation for free?)

5 posted on 08/02/2011 8:33:28 PM PDT by DustyMoment (Go green - recycle Congress in 2012!!)
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To: Paladin2
It’s a start. Zer0 is for 1800s technology railroads anyway.

Obama is a Luddite, for sure.

The tin foil side of me says this was intentionally overlooked to put federal money in the hands of the flailing airline industry. At least some airlines raised their prices by the same amount as the psuedo-repealed tax. One argument is that it is a mini-bailout, without a single politician having to take much heat for the decision.

6 posted on 08/02/2011 8:34:59 PM PDT by mlocher (Is it time to cash in before I am taxed out?)
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To: Doogle
The government is likely to lose more than $1 billion

That's exactly how the government looks at it.

7 posted on 08/02/2011 8:36:46 PM PDT by Glenn (iamtheresistance.org)
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To: Doogle

If only they had defunded the TSA. Where the FAA was cocaine the TSA is crack. Very destructive.


8 posted on 08/02/2011 8:37:03 PM PDT by bvw
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To: Doogle
If it wasn't shown time and time again every day that 0bama is so patriotic that he would NEVER do anything to harm his country of birth one would think that will all the destructive issues coming out of the White house that it were by design.

But we know better...

9 posted on 08/02/2011 8:37:18 PM PDT by EGPWS (Trust in God, question everyone else)
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To: Doogle
I don't care about the loss of tax revenue. This is a good thing. Without slave labor, big spending government can't survive.
Take away everyone elses money, and the democrats will have some explaining to do when their promised freeloader checks fail to show up in the mail.
10 posted on 08/02/2011 8:39:29 PM PDT by concerned about politics ("Get thee behind me, Liberal")
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To: Doogle

UNITED STATES – The citizens are likely to not have stolen from them more than $1 billion in airline ticket taxes because lawmakers have left town for a month without resolving a partisan standoff over a bill to end the partial shutdown of the Federal Aviation Administration.


11 posted on 08/02/2011 8:43:43 PM PDT by AD from SpringBay (We deserve the government we allow.)
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To: Doogle

I think this is bunk. The airlines are continuing to collect the tax because they know that the jerks in Congress will want it back - probably with interest.


12 posted on 08/02/2011 9:12:46 PM PDT by microgood
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To: microgood
I think this is bunk. The airlines are continuing to collect the tax because they know that the jerks in Congress will want it back - probably with interest.

Maybe. The only thing certain is that airline passengers will pay no less.
13 posted on 08/02/2011 9:21:34 PM PDT by AnotherUnixGeek
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To: microgood

I agree. AP writes everything with a political agenda in mind, and now they just want to discredit the legislative branch of government, possibly because in the end, they did make it look like the executive branch, Geithner and Obama, forced them into spending excessive amounts of money, on credit. NO WAY the Feds just forget about this accumulated revenue.


14 posted on 08/02/2011 9:30:41 PM PDT by ngat
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To: Doogle

Starve! The! Beast!


15 posted on 08/02/2011 11:00:28 PM PDT by Monitor ("The urge to save humanity is almost always a false-front for the urge to rule it." - H. L. Mencken)
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This is all about making it EASIER to unionize by only requiring just a majority of employees voting instead of the whole workforce.

It's amazing the Senate GOP are holding the line on this.

16 posted on 08/02/2011 11:36:28 PM PDT by newzjunkey (Next: coalescing behind ONE "Balanced Budget Amendment" (BBA))
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To: mlocher

It’s only money, you got plenty. In all this budget scam there has been NO talk of disposing of some gov’t property in sales to approved bidder/buyers. This could have raised billions.


17 posted on 08/03/2011 1:33:21 AM PDT by Waco (Nominate Palin or forget 2012 you lost)
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To: Waco

Your point is well taken. Personally, I would like to see spending get cut first, to be more on par with revenue. After that, we could dispose of assets to pay off debt. I vote that the White House be the first piece of US property on the auction block.


18 posted on 08/03/2011 5:11:45 AM PDT by mlocher (Is it time to cash in before I am taxed out?)
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To: Waco

Your point is well taken. Personally, I would like to see spending get cut first, to be more on par with revenue. After that, we could dispose of assets to pay off debt. I vote that the White House be the first piece of US property on the auction block.


19 posted on 08/03/2011 5:11:52 AM PDT by mlocher (Is it time to cash in before I am taxed out?)
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To: Doogle

- Big Government - http://biggovernment.com -

FAA Shutdown Because Dems Want to Protect Pork

Posted By Capitol Confidential On August 3, 2011 @ 8:29 am

The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has basically been shut down [1] thanks to the Senate Democrats addition to pork. 4,000 FAA employees have been furloughed until further notice. 70,000 construction workers must now sit on their hands as all airport construction has halted. And the federal government is loosing $200million a week in airline ticket taxes because they are not authorized to legally collect the tax.

[2]

What has led to this massive shut down? Senate Democrats refusal to curb a wasteful government subsidy of $200 million known as the Essential Air Service (EAS) program [3].

As of last Friday, the FAA has lost its authorization to spend money and levy fees because Congress couldn’t come to an agreement on a transportation bill. House Republicans are currently purposing a temporary transportation bill to last through September allowing time for the two parties to come together on a larger agreement. Included in the bill is a provision that would curb the EAS program.

The EAS program was originally created in 1978 as a subsidy to help out small and rural airports as the government stepped back from regulating routes and fares. The program was intended to last 10 years. Over three decades later, the program is still in existence serving over 140 airports; its budget keeps exploding and now the program functions only to subsidize routes that would have been abandoned year ago.....

http://biggovernment.com/capitolconfidential/2011/08/03/faa-shutdown-because-dems-want-to-protect-pork/print/


20 posted on 08/03/2011 2:24:08 PM PDT by KeyLargo
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