Bluesky
So with no factual evidence here's my opinion. I think the plan prices are fair. I don't think the AMA should undercut private business. Subsidizing or not subsidizing doesn't anything to do with it IMO as long as: 1. Plans are priced at fair market value. 2. Plans are not losing money for the AMA.
what about those in the fair market providing free/pullout plans?
Yeah. Scale R/C Builder (from England) had several. Or maybe it's Scale Model Builder......I can't remember exactly, and don't want to go look.
If the free market has folks giving away plans,
wouldnt we be remiss to not do so.
Why not carry on with what the market already has going?
Hoss, let me borrow one of your citations for general use:
3.)Subsidy, financial assistance granted by a government or philanthropic foundation to a person or association for the purpose of promoting an enterprise considered beneficial to the public welfare
Building models is one of the core concepts of what the AMA is trying to keep alive. Sometimes, to keep something alive you have to bolster it. There is no doubt that model building is receding in the face of ARFs, the question is
What is AMA going to
DO about the model building recession?
Something, or nothing and in a few years just change the name of the org to
Academy of Many Arfs