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Old 10-21-2005, 06:20 AM   #97 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by pigglet
that was my entire point. airport does not equal school. my point with the amount of federal $$$ that goes to bail out the airline industry every year is that I find the argument that airlines are private companies to be fallacious if you follow the $$$ trail. they are only "privately" owned because we can't allow them to fall into bankruptcy, because they are a de facto public form of transportation, particularly in the US.


The government offers subsidies to farmers, mining operations, forestry concerns, the arts, and a million other things. Are these government operations also? What about contractors who receive government dollars to build bridges, roads and other infrastructure projects?
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