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Re:Airbus Handed A380 Lifeline With $16B Emirates Order by matthewmacleod on Thursday January 18, 2018 @07:59AM (#16176719)
That was a detailed comment that didn't say "government is bad." It laid out a pretty reasonable interpretation of why that decision might have taken place, including quite clearly pointing out that some governments care less about the effects of airports on local populations, which could explain why some markets still have hub airports.

It definitely tallies with the impression I have – looking at London Heathrow, for example, where the controversy about expanding the airport has been rumbling on for an age, and governments are consistently jittery about taking an obvious view on it. I'd say there are pretty good reasons for avoiding expansion, but obviously this other comment disagrees.

There's nothing here that screams "libertarian," just a possibly inaccurate, but hardly unreasonable, point of view.

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Re:Airbus Handed A380 Lifeline With $16B Emirates Order by matt4077 on Thursday January 18, 2018 @08:07AM (#16176773)
> that didn't say "government is bad."

Yet it did start with "The problem is government".

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Re:Airbus Handed A380 Lifeline With $16B Emirates Order by maehwasu on Thursday January 18, 2018 @08:46AM (#16176966)
It turns out, shockingly enough, that there are many situations in which government creates problems.

If a poster lays out his/her reasoning as to WHY the government is the problem in a specific instance, simply yelling "libertarian" as a refutation doesn't look great.

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Re:Airbus Handed A380 Lifeline With $16B Emirates Order by mcv on Thursday January 18, 2018 @09:02AM (#16177043)
> It turns out, shockingly enough, that there are many situations in which government creates problems.

True of course, but not in this case. Many governments want their airports to expand, but they simply can't, because there's no space for it, and they're not totalitarian enough to screw over the millions of people living in those areas. It's not a case of governments being unreasonably obstructive, it's a case of governments actually caring about the interests of the people for a change.

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