$75 Billion in Band-Aids Won’t Cure Ailing Airlines
Mom always told us not to waste band-aids.
(From Reason)
Moreover, as my colleague Gary Leff and I show in new research published by the Mercatus Center at George Mason University, the math doesn’t add up to support the arguments that a second airline bailout is about the workers. If the bailout were truly to support upwards of 35,000 airline employees for six months, assuming roughly $50,000 per worker paid out over that period (i.e., $100,000 annually), the bailout would only be around $1.7 billion, not the $25 billion package that Congress is talking about.
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