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I was just sorta messing with ya.... but you actually can give what ever you want to the the UST general fund. Check their website im sure there is something there about it.

With Eagle dropping their mins today, now Im starting to think its not really entitlement, but smugness since the bar is being lowered to their level of play.

Never happen.... it would essentially be a tax by the feds that they would have to then figure out how to get to the carriers. In theory it would work because EVERY flight would then be effected thus no carrier would gain an advantage price wise on any city pair..... and you are right public probably wouldnt blink an eye.... but getting the govt involved presents a problem i suspect.

while that might seem like a good idea in that it would benefit the employees of the industry, nobody would buy off on something like that. for one its not fair, because it targets only us haha. second of all, thats very close to a social welfare type program which would be highly unpopular in politics today. i like your thinking though :)

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Originally Posted by Outlaw2097 (Post 245134)

Throwing out a hypothetical here...

Say the government imposes some sort of pilot/fare wage/mandatory tax for every flight of lets say ~$10. Public outcry? Probably not. Theyd suck it up (like the TSA tax) and keep flying. Still they find a cheap ticket, then they pony up $10 more just because.

Take that and divide it among the pilots of which make an income under some bracket. Include flight instructors in this bracket (gives them a reason to stay there for a little extra $.)

Does anyone feel that something of this nature would drastically cut commercial flights considering there were 658 million passengers last year alone?

I think its a great idea in theory but lets throw an arbitrary bracket of $50K as the cutoff point (or pick any amount). Those that make $51K or $52K or $53K are going to be ****ED that because they are only $1-3K above the cutoff point they don't get the extra $$$$$.