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To: Steve Lokness who wrote (38872)6/27/2007 10:20:15 PM
From: ManyMoose  Respond to of 541853
 
Government subsidies have their place, but for the most part I'm against them. A bus-riding pal of mine in Juneau who had a PhD in economics said that the reason the airline industry was in so much trouble is that government subsidies encouraged them to build over capacity.

I haven't noticed the traffic dying down since gas went over $3, so obviously it's still cheap. When it gets expensive, we'll see a difference in the traffic levels.