Then don't read it. I don't consider what I wrote to be "alarmist anti-government rhetoric." If you haven't noticed, the airline industry is in bad shape. The government adding taxes to the price of a ticket (and cargo, too) is not helping them. David R http://home.attbi.com/~damiross http://home.attbi.com/~damiross/books.html ----- Original Message ----- From: "Alireza Alivandivafa" <DEmocrat2n@xxxxxxx> To: <AIRLINE@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Monday, October 27, 2003 18:39 Subject: Re: [AIRLINE] incl taxes > Can we stop with all this alarmist anti-government rhetoric. It is costing me time on the Neptune machine at LAS