[Destro]

Point/Counterpoint: Boeing’s fears that it would be left in Airbus’s wake also prompted it to attack on another front. In October, America made a formal complaint to the World Trade Organisation alleging the payment of billions of dollars of “unfair” subsidies to Airbus. Boeing claims that “launch aid” has enabled Airbus to roll out five new products in the past ten years while it has managed just one. Like Airbus’s rapid response to the Dreamliner, the European Union immediately said that it would file a counter-claim over large sums of aid going to Boeing through indirect government subsidies from its relationship with NASA and the Pentagon. This week, the EU said that it was ready to compromise to resolve the dispute and both sides agreed to suspend hostilities (and subsidies) for three months of negotiations.

[dervish]

With all due respect, are you agreeing with the EU's ridiculous counterclaims, which it has already agreed to "compromise?"

The fact that the EU asserted an affirmative defense to US claims of unfair subsidy is not compelling of the truth of the matter.

Contracts are not subsidies. That's like saying an employee who earns a salary is subsidized by his job.

[Dr.Hilarious]

A contract with NASA is a government subsidy comparable to what Airbus gets?

That sounds like a stretch to me. If I buy a car am I subsidizing the car company the same way as if I just gave them money without taking delivery of a car from them?