Comments by "Archangel17" (@MDP1702) on "Airbus vs Boeing: How the EU and US Ended Their 17 Year Trade War - TLDR News" video.

@andrewemerson1613 I think the US-boeing problem/relation goes a long way further than just the US buying Boeings products competitively. Take a close look and you'd find that US congress often passes laws/budgets/demands that fit/are tailored to some large manufacturers. For example take the recent 10 billion for NASA's moonlander program. It was announced that NASA could only fund one proposal due to not enough funding (NASA had said they'd choose 2 with enough funding), to a total of around 3 billion dollar or so. When it came out that it was SpaceX that won this, companies that made up the national lander team essentially immediately started lobbying congress for more funding, expecting them to than be chosen second. Now the senate has suddenly passed a 10 billion dollar extra plan to fund this NASA program, 3 times the original alloted budget. Moreover the national lander has put up a much higher price than spaceX (spaceX could give a lower price due to developing it anyway with company assets), probably meaning they'd get a lot more of the funding, despite being second choice by far. This clearly can be seen as the US government trying to support/supporting these large and political influential companies indirectly.
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@IONATVS It isn't really usefull comparing planes based on sold items if one is being sold a lot earlier. If we look at the last 19 years, they are essentially selling similar amounts of planes, but since 2019 boeing was hit hard due to its problems and now with covid it might be even worse. Since 2002 Airbus sold around 9800 planes, while Boeing sold around 9300. It might be better to compare income/profits over this time (maybe one sold much more smaller planes), problem is that Boeing for example does a lot more than just selling planes, so it might not be easy to find their planes selling profits for this time.
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@IONATVS And? American companies get a lot more funding through these ways than Airbus does.
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@stephenjenkins7971 ...So do EU companies, or do you think Airbus isn't in the military industry? Did I say that? No, I said/indicated that in the US these companies abuse spending on space and military much more. There is a reason people say that the US congress is beholden to the MIC, because the MIC (or at least companies making it up) are bribing politicians in a 'legal' way (like promising jobs in their state district etc.) to essentially do what is best for them. The US has a military budget making up 1/3 of the world military investment, higher than the 10 next countries combined and keep increasing it. This doesn't make any sense. And something like the recent 10 billion extra Nasa funding amendment to a bill, which essentially is put in to service a few influential companies is just the tip of the iceberg. It is much more difficult in the EU to get away with essentially undeclared subsidies than in the US. Which is why the EU subsidies are actually called that and not just hidden in sales and funding for R&D, large tax cuts, .... You realize that in the US there was found to be no correlation between legislation of congress and what regular people wanted, but large correlation between what companies/rich people wanted and congress legislate. Large companies hold by far more sway in the US and they do abuse this sway for there own benefit.
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