Cxorcist, you say:
With higher labor costs than Boeing, I'm pretty sure this has much to do with public funding from their socialist parents.
A 25 millisecond Google search found articles relating to a recent WTO ruling that Boeing isn't whiter than white as far as subsidies go. Apparently, Boeing has received in the order of $4 billion in illegal funding so this subsidy business isn't something that only Airbus gets up to.
I suppose you could (and probably will) dispute the amount each manufacturer received.
That's my twopenneth anyways.
STP