Who can tax a satellite?

Reese reeza at flex.com
Thu Jul 12 22:53:09 PDT 2001


At 10:43 PM 7/11/01, Tim May wrote:

 >>One real world example of such.
 >
 >Learn to use a search engine. Search on the obvious terms, like
 >"airlines overflight payments."
 >
 >The first such hit you will find in Google, one of hundreds, is:
 >
 >"FAA ESTIMATES CUBA OWES US$1 MILLION FOR OVERFLIGHT FEES-
 >Information obtained from an inquiry to the Federal Aviation
 >Administration (FAA) within the United States Department of
 >Transportation by the U.S.-Cuba Trade and Economic Council shows that
 >Republic of Cuba government-operated Cubana Airlines and Republic of
 >Cuba government-operated AeroCaribbean Airlines were invoiced
 >approximately US$1 million by the FAA for the period May 1997 to 31
 >January 1998 for overflight fees."
 >
 >
 >Is this enough for the "one real world example"?

Is that datum from cubatrade.org or cubaonline.org?
How about from a real website?

 >Or, like many quibblers, do you claim that "one example" is not enough?

I specified one.  Since you seem to cite the FAA interalia though, I shall
require the one example be from the FAA and not from some pro-Cuba
organization.

Reese





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