Don't get it either. I've said it before, and I'll say it again: if small government worked? Third world countries with small ineffective governments would be killing it economically, and all these socialist-capitalist nations (UK, EU, US, Japan) would be waaaaaay behind them economically.Typical Lax Dad wrote: ↑Sun Aug 25, 2024 1:34 pmYears ago I used an SBA loan as part of a financing to help a son buy a business from his father. He told me for years how that financing changed his life as well as his children’s. It wasn’t a major buyout but it has some leverage on it and the SBA helped. Also used a USDA guarantee to help start up a co-op grocery store in an inner city location as part of a mixed use development project. Why someone would be upset about saying the government helped set the stage for a lot of personal success is beyond me. It’s one of the great things about the USA.a fan wrote: ↑Sun Aug 25, 2024 12:37 pmWe started our ENTIRE 25 year operation with a small SBA loan that we paid in full years ago.Typical Lax Dad wrote: ↑Sun Aug 25, 2024 11:52 amIt was used out of context to paint him a particular way. It’s like Republicans suggesting that Hillary Clinton was calling all supporters of Donald Trump deplorables. She was talking about a particular subset of supporters which is in fact true.Farfromgeneva wrote: ↑Sun Aug 25, 2024 10:10 amIt’s silly. I didn agree with Obama’s broad generalization that everything rich folks and was bc of govt, it s bs comment suggesting their wouldTypical Lax Dad wrote: ↑Sun Aug 25, 2024 10:05 amAnd when I pay the tax, I am not offsetting it by utilizing government resources to enrich myself over and above the tax. Old Salt thinks he built that.Farfromgeneva wrote: ↑Sun Aug 25, 2024 10:00 amYes I’ve been I involved with airport bonds and this is it.Typical Lax Dad wrote: ↑Sat Aug 24, 2024 10:21 pmYou sucked those titties dry. I got off my mom’s titties at 18.old salt wrote: ↑Sat Aug 24, 2024 9:28 pmWhy don't you build your own roads & bridges ? We paid to use the airport & generated the revenue for it's upkeep.Typical Lax Dad wrote: ↑Sat Aug 24, 2024 6:50 amWhy didn’t you build your own airport? All of those entities you listed are based on the government spending money.old salt wrote: ↑Sat Aug 24, 2024 2:38 amThe County gets 15% of the gross & we eat it when the airport closes for 6 mos for a runway extension. We collect & pay the fuel taxes & generate $$$ for the gubment, dummy.a fan wrote: ↑Fri Aug 23, 2024 4:58 pmAnd who owns the airport? Oh, that's right. The government. Socialism.old salt wrote: ↑Fri Aug 23, 2024 4:12 pmWrong. You've just demonstrated your ignorance of the multiple revenue streams in aviation & airports.a fan wrote: ↑Fri Aug 23, 2024 11:50 amEvery last bit of it working for the .gov. How does this do anything but make my point? All of it....every last bit....in service of socialism.old salt wrote: ↑Fri Aug 23, 2024 1:35 am Then I helped build a small business into a successful GSA, DoD, State Dept, USDA, DoF, CIA & NASA contractor + MD State Police helo base/facility + booming county airport management & FBO + aircraft rental/flight school + aircraft maint facility + hangar construction & rental + air charter operation
Govt spending only ? ...weren't you butt hurt by Trump's bad pay ?
We flew several charter junkets to ACY hauling gamblers to Trump's Taj.
Got paid up front & generous comps during layover.
An airport tax is a tax levied on passengers for passing through an airport. The tax is generally imposed for the use of the airport and is one of a number of taxes that are typically included in the price of an airline ticket. Revenue from airport taxes is used for facility maintenance.
But once someone uses the term “but hurt” it’s lost and the joke is on that person for being pathetic.
Be no govt in an alternative which isn’t realistic enough to set up that sort of idea.
https://www.factcheck.org/2012/07/you-d ... -unedited/
I basically said the same thing Obama said years ago. The United States Government helps set the stage for people to be successful. If people don’t believe it, go try to do it in Cuba, Russia, Argentina, Chile or any number of places where there isn’t robust government participation in private enterprise. Hell look at the SBA and what their programs have done for people.
SBA loans? If folks didn't know? The program turns a profit for the .gov. because they charge fees. Not a big profit.....but it's an ENORMOUS economic engine for America.
There are SO many .gov programs that cost the US taxpayer a rounding error that generate massive ROI. Instead of stepping on that accelerator, we pull back. Idiotic.
Instead? We're the shining beacons of the world. Must be a coincidence.
Also must be a coincidence that because we don't have universal healthcare that we spend twice what the UK spends on health care (% of GDP), yet America's poor's life expectancy is dropping like a stone. The private market isn't working. I wish it was, but it ain't.
The sooner that Republicans read Old Salt's post, aggressively telling me that aviation in America doesn't work without government training...and apply that idea to health care? The sooner we'll have an economic boom because businesses like mine are no longer on the hook for paying for very expensive, yet very sh*tty health care.
Think about what that would do. Ask a working class American what would happen if their health care was taken care of, no hassle.