Pretty typical for corporations such as this. And they are the ones pushing for small businesses to pay the "marketplace fairness" tax.
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Originally Posted by SuckOnThis
Really? You think a fighter jet costs billions of dollars?
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"The most recent U.S. Defense Department estimates put the current cost of developing, testing and building the F-35 multi-role fighter jet at $396 billion, a forecast that assumes U.S. purchases of 2,443 production jets, on top of 14 test planes.
Retrofits of existing planes to address problems found in flight testing are expected to total $1.7 billion over the first 10 production batches, according to the most recent report by the congressional Government Accountability Office (GAO).
The cost of operating and sustaining the new planes is estimated to reach $1.1 trillion, assuming that they will be used for 50 years, according to the most recent Pentagon data provided to Congress."
http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/...92E12E20130315