This is the ideological divide, and I voted one way, you voted the other way. The divide: you believe more taxes is the solution, despite today's taxes being hire than any point in US history. Taxes per capita have ballooned over the US's history. I believe today's government is in the business of self justification, that if we take $1 away from some program, society as we know it grinds to a halt.
The switch in your argument to "it's just a drop in the bucket" is odd to me. For one, I hope the same sentiment carries over to other components of government. Massive rein-in of spend. FAA has not been canceled; instead, its unchecked spending is being challenged. Same for the rest of these programs. FAA's 2025 budget is nearly 4x the 1995 budget, despite serving roughly the same number of airports. There may be 30% more flights today than in 1995, with all those occurring at the same airports we had back in 1995. How do you explain a 4x mission scope creep? Inflation address a bit, but ATC should be getting more efficient with technology, not more complicated.
The real answer, theres a lot of misappropriated funding and spending that needs to be reeled in. It is ok to disagree, I nonetheless adjure you to voluntarily pay more taxes.
This is quite an attack, to say if I dont agree with you, then I am a combination of these things:
>>anyone who’s in the upper echelons of our economy that isn’t saying this while seeing the conditions the rest of our country and world live in is unbelievably narrow-minded, ignorant, selfish, straight up evil, or more likely a combination of all the above.
The switch in your argument to "it's just a drop in the bucket" is odd to me. For one, I hope the same sentiment carries over to other components of government. Massive rein-in of spend. FAA has not been canceled; instead, its unchecked spending is being challenged. Same for the rest of these programs. FAA's 2025 budget is nearly 4x the 1995 budget, despite serving roughly the same number of airports. There may be 30% more flights today than in 1995, with all those occurring at the same airports we had back in 1995. How do you explain a 4x mission scope creep? Inflation address a bit, but ATC should be getting more efficient with technology, not more complicated.
The real answer, theres a lot of misappropriated funding and spending that needs to be reeled in. It is ok to disagree, I nonetheless adjure you to voluntarily pay more taxes.
This is quite an attack, to say if I dont agree with you, then I am a combination of these things: >>anyone who’s in the upper echelons of our economy that isn’t saying this while seeing the conditions the rest of our country and world live in is unbelievably narrow-minded, ignorant, selfish, straight up evil, or more likely a combination of all the above.