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Amtrak - are you helping to keep it
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Wow, <br /> <br />I don't usually bother to post here but cablebridge's response was so completely wrong that I had to. First off, if you work in the highway industry you know that trucks cause thousands of times more wear on the roads than cars and the taxes, they pay, although hefty, don't begin to cover "their fair share". Second, if I use my boat, snowmobile, or even mow my lawn, I'm also paying the gas tax, but not using the road so saying the gas tax is fair is simply not. The government does finiance the roads and airports because transportation turns our economy; why not finiance rail? And to say you don't use Amtrak is once again false....don't you get the mail or eat fruit? They both, among other things, ride the rails. I think maybe someone doesn't want to think of an rail structure so good it eliminates the need for our "government fattened" highway system!!!
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