Redleader- some of us have been trying to have the charging regime addressed as part of the "system" (US or other) for a long time. Of course it is inextricably attached! Forget about trying to get Dick involved in that argument, though. On the very few occasions he has ever acknowledged comments/argument to this effect, he simply says "it's too hard" (read: "I believe in user pays and helped introduce it, and often use 'cost' arguments- when they suit me"), and continues to tilt at small windmills (like airspace) which have so little actual effect (comparatively) on GA (and the industry as a whole).
But that's a whole other thread.