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To: TimF who wrote (36683)	5/11/2014 2:45:32 PM
From: i-node	Respond to of 42652

Many of those private airports are largely self-funding. Addison Airport -- a very busy general aviation airport near Dallas, has a budget of a few million dollars a year and handles an immense amount of traffic -- traffic mostly pays for the facility. And it takes that traffic away from D/FW and Love Field, so the few federal dollars probably make sense in that context.

To: TimF who wrote (36683)	5/11/2014 5:21:12 PM
From: Road Walker	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 42652

As I said "if the government had not involved itself so much" there would be more totally private investment, but government did get involved quite heavily. So government crowded out the private sector that was just dying to buy huge tracks of metro private property to build a noisy, polluting metro airport? Just like the private sector is crowded out of the highway business. Truth is they can't, and if they could, wouldn't want to do it. And if they did it would cost us an arm and a leg to get from point A to point B, because they'd only do it if they had a virtual monopoly. Even you admit government should do certain things... but then you balk when one is mentioned. Can't help yourself.