Comments on: Interactive Airport Map Displays U.S. Airports Getting Big Grant Money http://www.nucloud.com/blog/interactive-airport-map-displays-us-airports-getting-big-grant-money/ Scalable Multimedia Services for Higher Education | nuCloud Wed, 30 Jun 2010 04:36:56 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: J Kraft http://www.nucloud.com/blog/interactive-airport-map-displays-us-airports-getting-big-grant-money/comment-page-1/#comment-86 J Kraft Sun, 25 Oct 2009 15:47:02 +0000 http://www.nucloud.com/?p=222#comment-86 The map is great, and extremely accurate. Unfortunately, you are misguided by USA Today's biased "reporting" of this airline driven propaganda. If you investigate this issue further, you will find that the small GA airport users that you classify as a "select wealthy class of plane owners" do, in fact, more than pay for them through aviation fuel taxes. The amount of money paid to the federal government by GA airport users well exceeds the amounts the GA airports receive in federal grants. This is the main fact ignored by the USA Today article. In contrast... how about a map that shows how much federal money is spent maintaing local municipaity roads that Most drivers will never use? The map is great, and extremely accurate. Unfortunately, you are misguided by USA Today’s biased “reporting” of this airline driven propaganda.

If you investigate this issue further, you will find that the small GA airport users that you classify as a “select wealthy class of plane owners” do, in fact, more than pay for them through aviation fuel taxes. The amount of money paid to the federal government by GA airport users well exceeds the amounts the GA airports receive in federal grants.

This is the main fact ignored by the USA Today article.

In contrast… how about a map that shows how much federal money is spent maintaing local municipaity roads that Most drivers will never use?

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