Ha Ha. As the US economy slowly circles the drain.The good old FAA and its unrestricted, publically topped up, money bucket.
By "public", you mean the tax on avgas, which by its very nature, is only levied on people why actually, you know, aviate?
Here we have AsA which charges us, then returns tens of millions in dividend to the government, which puts it into general revenue. General revenue which tops of all sorts of road infrastructure that road tax alone can't pay for.
The dividend they pay is just a drop in the ocean for general revenue, but if used just for aviation could make a huge difference to the industry. Same with tax on aviation fuels.