Drop the tax and duties on avgas for flight schools like they do with farmers with Ag diesel or the tax breaks they give Google, Philip Green and oil companies etc for exploration credits.This will make training significantly more affordable and encourage both initial training for careers in aviation and recurring training for duffers like us who would hire planes and instructors for more than just ratings and reviews. It would get the flight school business back off its knees, encourage more foreign students (Chinese etc) create jobs and would make private ownership less desirable if flight schools had large rental fleets operated under their safety rules and give the UK GA and commercial aviation business the fresh wind of change it needs.
Bottom line, look at how much revenue the duties from avgas are bringing in, stop charging it, and deduct the shortfall to the public purse from the "drunken sailor" government programs like going on senseless wars, foreign aid to African dictators, development programs to countries that are in reality richer than ours, and if there really is a need for "democracy building" round the world instead of sending money and "experts" burn a few CD's of the US constitution and mail it to them 3rd class and end all the other touchy feely sanctimonious moral high ground bull**** projetcs our elected "leaders" feel the need to spunk our money on. RANT OVER
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