This should have been the headline on this article. I doubt many readers would have understood that this is exactly the nature of the industry's proposal. Most businesses would like it if the government would step in and pick up their money losing operations. Usually, they would not be so brazen as to publicly suggest such a move. Remarkably, readers of this article may not realize how outlandish the industry proposal really is.
--Dean Baker
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