{"id":1027,"date":"2009-10-01T17:09:02","date_gmt":"2009-10-01T21:09:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=1027"},"modified":"2009-10-01T17:47:14","modified_gmt":"2009-10-01T21:47:14","slug":"illegal-subsidies-factor-into-tanker-decision","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/1027\/illegal-subsidies-factor-into-tanker-decision\/","title":{"rendered":"Illegal Subsidies Factor into Tanker Decision"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.seattlepi.com\/aerospace\/archives\/180556.asp\" target=\"_blank\">Recently<\/a>, the World Trade Organization (WTO) ruled that the European Union has been illegally subsidizing Airbus, a foreign competitor to Boeing.<\/p>\n<p>Last year, the Center for Individual Freedom sounded a note of caution over an Air Force decision to award a new $40 billion air refueling tanker contract to Airbus, and not to Boeing.\u00a0 Now, the WTO&#8217;s decision adds fodder to the speculation that the European Union&#8217;s subsidies illegally undercut Boeing&#8217;s bid for the Air Force contract.<\/p>\n<p>More info <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.seattlepi.com\/aerospace\/archives\/180556.asp\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cfif.org\/v\/index.php\/press-room\/229-center-for-individual-freedom-launches-qamericas-tankerq-website\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recently, the World Trade Organization (WTO) ruled that the European Union has been illegally subsidizing Airbus, a foreign competitor to Boeing. Last year, the Center for Individual Freedom sounded a note of caution over an Air Force decision to award a new $40 billion air refueling tanker contract to Airbus, and not to Boeing.\u00a0 Now, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1027","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1027","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1027"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1027\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1030,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1027\/revisions\/1030"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1027"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1027"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1027"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}