Arrr, straight out of the Leadsled database of conspiracy theories.
Bloggs,
If you had/have spent as much time in Canberra as I have over the years, you might just come to understand that it is not my imagination that produces these many and varied ideas for "cost recovery". Unlike the Europeans, those damned Yanks keep making their GPS free --- unlike the proposals for the accurate signals from Galileo.
Indeed, the principle reason we will never have wide area GPS augmentation/WAAS, is nobody in Canberra could figure out how to charge users --- not confined to aviation.
It is a wonderful racket, create a legal requirement for a service, then charge for the service, with the inevitable fines for breaches of the legal requirement.
Tootle pip!!