MEMA,
I don't claim to be an expert on anything, but thank you for the vote of confidence.

I encourage you to read Senator John Linder's Fair Tax book. I'm confident that you'll gain a significantly different view on business and taxes. What kind of business do you run? Just curious, is your business model working out for you?

When other sectors of the market incur significant tax increases, such as sales tax on hotels, cigarette's, rental cars, etc... the consumer bears the entire brunt of the addition tax burden. I'm not sure the airlines are paying any taxes that they aren't passing onto/collecting from the customer.