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[quote user="n012944"] EAS is funded by revenue collected on overflight fees.  If these fees are not going to be put back into the avaition sector, why even have them?   In other words, why should fees that airlines pay be used for rail passenger travel?   <a href="http://www.taxpayer.net/library/article/faa-reauthorization-and-the-essential-air-service-when-a-cut-is-actually-an">http://www.taxpayer.net/library/article/faa-reauthorization-and-the-essential-air-service-when-a-cut-is-actually-an</a> "The conference agreement stipulates that revenue collected from overflight fees (fees charged to passengers of airplanes that fly through US airspace but do not actually land in the US) is immediately available for use in the EAS program. Under existing law, Congress authorized $50M of overflight fee revenue to be spent on the EAS each year, and that’s all the FAA was allowed to spend. Anything they collected in excess of  $50M would be available for future years, since in any year they collected less than $50M, they would have to make up for that out of program funds. This allowed a buffer. And it also worked because the amount collected in overflight fees was generally close to $50M each year (FY11: $56.7M)." [/quote] Had the politicians who voted for this scheme been active at the beginning of the American Revolution, they undoubtedly would have sided with the Tories.  Clearly, they don't have a problem with taxation without representation.
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