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Re:Alaska Airlines to Buy Virgin America for $2.6B by greggyb on Monday April 04, 2016 @11:39AM (#11422691)
> Surely you can recognize the merit in keeping domestic control of transportation, which is the reason these regulations exist.

Not OP, and not trying to be glib, but I think you're skirting the major objection by assuming agreement here.

Differential privilege due to happenstance of birth location seems a pretty arbitrary line to me, in need of justification.

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Re:Alaska Airlines to Buy Virgin America for $2.6B by dsl on Monday April 04, 2016 @04:24PM (#11425264)
As an american I can't own property or a business in _most_ of the world, without a local proxy.

We also have programs that will give you citizenship if you commit to investing money long term and taking an allegiance to the United States.

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Re:Alaska Airlines to Buy Virgin America for $2.6B by Tobani on Monday April 04, 2016 @12:15PM (#11423047)
It sounds like the requirement is citizenship. Citizenship isn't exactly happenstance of birth location.
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