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Thanks, Taxpayers, for My Subsidized Ticket on an Airplane Gutted to Meet Stupid Regulations
Thank you, taxpayers, for subsidizing our jaunt as part of the often (and justly) criticized Essential Air Service program. And the flight was conducted on a BE-1900 that had had ten seats ripped out. (reason.com) Más...Sort type: [Top] [Newest]
100 miles on the interstate between prescott and phoenix... not too far to flagstaff either. At least for Prescott, seems like they should fly them there instead and give them a connection.
Well, I won't discuss the merits of EAS as I think most folks feel the same about it but he don't need to bad mouth KPRC that bad. I was in there several times last year in our CRJ, and believe me, there are a WHOLE bunch that are much worse.
Nobody has figured out how to operate the 1900 outside of EAS? Really? I'll remember that when I strap into one tomorrow morning in one of my company's seven 1900's. And there's a commuter airline across the field with a sizable fleet of their own. It's a fantastic aircraft. Very efficient within its niche.
This is more of a party line anti-government diatribe than anything else. I mean, what's the point?
The Essential Air Service program is so horrible, but I rode it anyway. I could have used my Randian superskillz to go to the big airport, but I settled on the taxpayer subsidized regional airline which wouldn't exist if the program didn't exist, which would in turn limit my choices. It's so terrible, and they stopped expanding it after 2010. Isn't that awful?
...What?
This guy gets paid to write about how bad the government is. Right. I'm familiar with Reason.com. But what point is being made here? I learned nothing by reading this article, except that the author is a libertarian. He wants it both ways, it seems, and in the end he doesn't convince me of much at all. No one forced him to rattle around in this damned thing, this plane with seats ripped (!) out of it. Did he do it just so that he could complain to his fellow ideologues on their club website?
And, if we can be grown ups for a second, $2,094,235 is nothing in terms of the federal budget. One smart bomb costs more than that, and all it does is blow up.
The Essential Air Service program is so horrible, but I rode it anyway. I could have used my Randian superskillz to go to the big airport, but I settled on the taxpayer subsidized regional airline which wouldn't exist if the program didn't exist, which would in turn limit my choices. It's so terrible, and they stopped expanding it after 2010. Isn't that awful?
...What?
This guy gets paid to write about how bad the government is. Right. I'm familiar with Reason.com. But what point is being made here? I learned nothing by reading this article, except that the author is a libertarian. He wants it both ways, it seems, and in the end he doesn't convince me of much at all. No one forced him to rattle around in this damned thing, this plane with seats ripped (!) out of it. Did he do it just so that he could complain to his fellow ideologues on their club website?
And, if we can be grown ups for a second, $2,094,235 is nothing in terms of the federal budget. One smart bomb costs more than that, and all it does is blow up.
Well it's always a good deal when you get to spend other peoples' money to not "limit your choices", isn't it.
And as to the smallness of two million dollars vis a vis the entire budget, it's not some isolated deal, it's like saying the Air Force isn't that big, they only spend $100,000 a year on berets; EAS, according to wikipedia, is about $220 million/year excluding Alaska.
And as to the smallness of two million dollars vis a vis the entire budget, it's not some isolated deal, it's like saying the Air Force isn't that big, they only spend $100,000 a year on berets; EAS, according to wikipedia, is about $220 million/year excluding Alaska.
That is the problem with the whole budget and their thinking. "Aw, it not that much, only a million or 2". Well, millions make billions. They are gonna need to knock off a whole bunch of the small stuff in order to make a BIG savings of any kind, and that will have to include foreign aid to those that hate us and burn our flag and falsely imprison our people. My rant for the day.