How many years has our FAA made a profit?
You are certainly correct about the unions, but that is a separate issue.
I don’t understand your point. The FAA isn’t a business, it’s a regulatory agency.
Where the US has the right distance/population density mix, we have high-speed rail - Acela - Boston/New York/Washington.
Elsewhere in the country, it just doesn’t make sense. They’ve been talking about a high-speed link from LA to Vegas for almost 20 years now, but no one can crunch the numbers in such a way as to make monetary sense.