re: #500 Scottish Dragon

Our anti-trust watchdogs failed us. We used to have three or four competitive civilian jetliner manufacturers here in the US.

Now we have two in the entire world.

There’s no law of physics that says it’s possible to build a jet airliner and sell it at a price resulting in ticket prices that people are willing to pay. Subsidy may be the only option. If so, I prefer the direct government subsidy Airbus model over the “soak the locals with tax giveaways, otherwise unnecessary infrastructure improvements, and outright bribes and still move to Chicago” model of Boeing.