A random question from someone who hates politics

[Footy Chick]

Ok all you politically minded types ...

I need examples where the government favours one type of product over another ( or market distortion I think its called) I already have the imported car excise thing.

Amaze me with your knowledge ...

Cheers

[Punk Rooster]

tariff?

[therisingblues]

Petrol powered cars as opposed to electric cars. (probably more relevant to Bush's reign in the US than the govs in Australia, but then Howard used to suck up ol' Bushy a fair bit so he may have been playing this game as well.)
In Japan in the 70's there was the Lockheed scandal. The owners of Lockheed paid off the big Japanese airlines in order to win contracts for their inferior planes. Yakuza and politicians were up to their elbows in it.
The Canadian government in the early 70's screwed over their own airforce and a revolutionary type fighter plane, which may have been superior to anything flying even today, because the US pressured them into using missiles as a primary defence.
Sorry, don't know much about Australian product preferences FC.