Frank Murkowski, as you recall, is the Senate Republican who opposes giving the FEMA $2000 debit cards to Hurricane Katrina survivors, on the grounds that it's hard to distinguish the "truly needy" from those who just want a handout.
Somehow I don't think Murkowski will worry about such distinctions when it comes to YET ANOTHER airline bailout:
With jet fuel prices soaring in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, U.S. airlines have asked Congress and the White House for $600 million in tax relief.
Commercial airlines, which have been battered, and in some cases bankrupted, by high energy costs are seeking a one-year reprieve from the 4.3-cents-per-gallon federal tax on jet fuel.
“We’ve discussed it with the Department of Transportation and folks on the Hill,” said Jack Evans, a spokesman for the Air Transport Association, a Washington-based trade group. “I think, so far, people have been receptive.”
Of course the weapon the airlines will probably use will be yet more defaults on their pension plans...
If my costs go up because of high fuel prices, I don't see the government giving ME a handout; I just make do with less. I cut back on something else. Perhaps airlines could cut back on executive compensation.
Naah. Not in Bushworld.
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