Well, Medicare is NOT a subsidy (unless you consider seniors to be a
special interest group, like private pilots), but I won't quibble that
there needs to be more cost effective solution.

Medicare is not a subsidy? What planet do you live on again?

At $530+ billion annually, it's the biggest subsidy of them all -- and it's
threatening to completely overwhelm the federal budget. In the next ten
years, it will -- unless drastic measures are taken.

As for airport subsidies, I suppose you have the same objections to the
interstate highway system? Or the Army Corps of Engineer's work on
waterways? How about Amtrak?

All of these transportation systems receive government subsidies, because
they are rightly seen as essential government services.

Are you advocating tollways for all motorists? If not, it is you, sir, who
are the hypocrite.
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