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Politics : A US National Health Care System? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?


To: Road Walker who wrote (36650)5/8/2014 5:13:48 PM
From: TimF  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 42652
 
No stockholder would put up with how long it took to pay off his investment.

That statement is very unlikely to be true, if the government had not involved itself so much. If there was a shortage of slots at airports and a free market in them they would be very profitable.

Air travel is subsidized by the government. But not even close to as much per passenger-mile as inter-city rail.