How F-35 Fighters Will Siphon An Extra Trillion Dollars From Taxpayers
Sarah Okeson April 28, 2019
Reprinted with permission from DCReport.
When you buy a new car, you aren’t required to go back to the dealership for oil changes, but our nation’s taxpayers are stuck with billions of dollars in bills to maintain pricey weapons systems and aircraft from politically connected firms like Lockheed Martin and Boeing after they sell them to the government.
These “sustainment costs” for the next generation of F-35 fighter jets, already the world’s most expensive weapons program, are expected to top $1 trillion over the life of the program.
“Contractors want the government to accept whatever costs or prices they offer with little review or recourse for overpricing, regardless of contract type or the level of competition involved,” said J. David Cox, the national president of the American Federation of Government Employees.
Cox was criticizing a recent government report that recommends ways to ease regulations on contractors to make it easier for our country’s military to compete with China and Russia in modernizing weapons.
https://www.nationalmemo.com/how-f-35-fighters-will-siphon-an-extra-trillion-dollars-from-taxpayers/
You know I keep thinking of how some state governments are trying to force people that have health issues work for Medicaid, and how housing in this country has become unaffordable, and how roads and education are decaying...........................
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