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Re: NY congressman Higgins writes Amtrak's Moorman in support of reopening Buffalo Central Terminal |
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Posted by Joe V on Mon Mar 20 17:35:47 2017, in response to Re: NY congressman Higgins writes Amtrak's Moorman in support of reopening Buffalo Central Terminal, posted by Nilet on Sun Mar 19 20:42:46 2017. You don't what you are talking about.AIRLINES DO NOT OWN AIRPORTS. Therefore they do not pay property taxes for them, PERIOD. Tenants do NOT pay property taxes. Try deducting property taxes on your apartment, if you have an apartment, and see how fast the auditors come after you. LANDING FEES DO NOT SUPPORT AIR TRAFFIC CONTROL. The airport is owned by the local government authority. Air Traffic Controllers are paid by US-DOT. As for as you nonsense that railroads are "subsidized" because of 19th century land grants, the US Congress disproved that myth SEVENTY-TWO YEAR AGO: "In 1945, when Congress relieved railroads of their obligation to provide the government with reduced rates, Congress stated that, through the years the government has gotten all and more than it bargained for in the original land grant transaction...the time has come for the government to close its books on this transaction [and]...relieve the land grant railroads of the injustice of being required to continue to make payments on a debt that has long been extinguished.” Likewise, in 1951, a Senate committee observed that railroad land-grant aid “has been repaid several times over.” "Government studies have shown that railroads have already paid several times over for the land grants they received, mainly by giving the government discounted rates for decades. The days are long past when railroad land grants should be a source of controversy. " https://www.aar.org/BackgroundPapers/Railroad%20Land%20Grants%20-%20Paid%20in%20Full.pdf That has been further proven by "The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History": "The government bonds received for construction—the so-called subsidy—remained a bone of contention for another quarter century. Ultimately both railroads paid off their government debt in full. From the first, the government also received another payment in the form of reduced rates on its troops and freight carried by the roads. " https://www.gilderlehrman.org/history-by-era/development-west/essays/financing-transcontinental-railroad |
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