Obama's budget could increase taxes on air passengers
Airline travelers will pay more to help finance airport projects within the project budget of President Barack Obama.
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Todd Hauptli, an agent for the American Association of Airport officials said the subsidy cuts would hurt critically needed safety, security and capacity projects at airports across the country.
Airport lawyers as consultant Mike Boyd, infuriated that Obama would cut spending and proposed airport 53 billion U.S. dollars for high-speed rail. «Rail will not work – the 19th-century solution," he said. "Meanwhile, airports will have 30 percent less to do the things to do."
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Last year, the House approved a bill that would let airports increase the cost up to $ 7, but the Senate version of the bill to reauthorize the Federal Aviation Administration does not include the increase. The bill died anyway.
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The House is now under Republican control. Last week, Rep. John Mica, R-Fla., The new chairman of the House Transportation Committee, and the new aviation subcommittee chairman Rep. Tom Petri, R-Wis., Left, and especially the $ 4.50 limit for fees FAA Passenger unchanged in the reform bill.
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The passenger charge imposed on each flight segment, which is a takeoff and a landing. For example, a passenger flying from Detroit to Dallas with a stop in Chicago will pay the tax twice, once for each leg.
Airlines say the increase in passenger fees will slow the recovery in air travel, which helped airlines earn about 2.3 billion U.S. dollars in profits last year after losing billions in 2008 and 2009.
The Delta Air Lines Inc. CEO Richard Anderson wrote in-flight magazine of the airline, Sky, that increasing the fee to $ 7 would mean that a family of four would pay $ 112 in charges for passengers on an average trip. They assume a position after the departure of their trip and another going home for a total of four feet.
The charge of passengers is only one element in a 3.73 trillion U.S. dollars of the budget of the President for the financial year starting October 1. Obama's plan will cut federal deficits by 1.1 trillion U.S. dollars over a decade, but will not cut as deep as its own deficit Commission recommended.
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