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In reply to the discussion: The Republicans SERIOUSLY fucked themselves with the FAA thing [View all]The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,661 posts)If FAA is funded by the airlines it will end up dancing to their tune. The FAA needs to regulate aviation interests fairly, honestly and thoroughly, and that will not happen if their funding comes from those whom it is supposedly regulating.
Do you think meat processors and drug companies should fund the FDA? Those interests are under-regulated as it is. Should dangerous, polluting factories fund OSHA and the EPA? Should the railroads fund the Federal Railroad Administration? Should liquor manufacturers, tobacco companies and gun manufacturers fund the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms? How about the Mine Safety agency - let's have the mining companies fund them! The big factory farm companies can fund the Department of Agriculture!
I could go on, but you get the idea. Corporate interests have too much influence on government as it is; let's not sell it to them outright.