As has been said to me on more than one occasion, including a conference in ASA's headquarters in Can'tberra, re. VFR traffic, words to the meaning: "Why should we provide a service to anybody who doesn't pay".
ATC aren't really providing a service for GA anyway. To understand who benefits from ATC, ask who would object if it didn't exist? GA would be quite happy I think.
I understand the need to control traffic around major airports. However, if a large area of airspace is to be reserved for those (hopefully) making money from commercial services, and other users excluded, you could make an argument that they should be paying for the airspace as well as ATC services.
Charge Airservices per cubic mile of class C/D below 10,000 (to be passed on to users) and see how big CTA ends up then
