Originally Posted by
bcpilot
You are way out of reality brother, if you really believe in what you said......
You don't cut the essential services to save money......
What do you suggest to cut next.... The Border patrol, the police, Fire dept, Ambulance, the US Army, Air defence.......
To save what, just $50 mil, won't even make a dent in the FAA's budget, leave alone the national revenue or debt.
If those places had a tower, there was a reason for it. If some of the places don't need a tower, then FAA needs to re-evaluate, not cut them blindly just because of lack of funds.....
The world will laugh indeed...... That AMERICA can't afford to keep it's towers running & shut 173 towers just to save $50 million a year........
If one GA accident happens, that blood will be whose hands ????
Why...... just so someone making over 250K per year doesn't have to pay what he used to pay in taxes........
Think again.....
This is a publicity stunt...if they really wanted to they could have absorbed the cuts elsewhere.
Most notable...these contract towers are not staffed by GS employees. So no government union members are impacted.