Sat, Sep 17, 2011
Tom Coble Opposes Additional Taxes And User Fees On Aircraft
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The CEO of Coble Trench Safety, which is headquartered in
Greensboro, NC and has branch offices throughout the south and
east, writes in the Charlotte Observer that the President
and some in Congress should lay off their "vilification" of general
aviation to score political points.
King Air B-200 File Photo
Tom Coble, who flies his personal Beech King Air B-200 to visit
his 11 branches in six states, writes what most involved in
aviation already know: Business airplanes allow company executives
to be far more efficient, support American manufacturing, generate
$150 billion in economic impact and support 1.2 million jobs. Those
jobs range from the union laborers who assemble the aircraft to the
small businessman who distributes parts and spares to the mechanic
who keeps them flying and the line worker who pumps the gas and
mows the airport grass.
In his opinion piece. Coble points out that GA "takes a beating
from senseless and ongoing vilification," and that has caused a
second dip in deliveries of airplanes. He equates the rhetoric in
Washington to "demagoguery of general aviation" as the President
and some members of congress propose changes in depreciation
schedules and new "user fees," while portraying the businessmen who
use the airplanes as a business tool as "millionaires and
billionaires."
Coble says that, if we are to look to businesses to again expand
and hire back workers, it doesn't make sense to "vilify the very
tools they count on to increase their productivity." He says
stimulating the economy does not mean taxing those businesses "to
death" and "penalizing the tools that are needed to remain
competitive."
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