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It's such a good corporate welfare program that it produced an actual good aircraft.
by clSTophEjUdRanu 7y ago
It's such a good corporate welfare program that it produced an actual good aircraft.
- nabla9 7y agoIt's more worker/voter welfare than corporate welfare. Socialism for the middle class. Lockheed Martin's long term profit margin is around 6-7 percent (recently above 9%). Lockheed pays more wages than it makes profits. If you count the whole value chain, with contractors and their subcontractors, it's probably something like 50% total worker compensation (wages, benefits), 10% profits, 10% cost of capital, rest is taxes, real estate, energy and raw materials.
- divbyzer0 7y agoTrickle-down economics?