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Who said rail is a public service? Who says that any transportation is? <br /> <br />Is food a public service? Then should food be provided by the government? Or is it each according to their means? You are on dangerous ground here. <br /> <br />The government does not exist to "provide us" with anything... rather to gaurantee us our liberty and our freedom. Thus common defence, etc..... but there is no gaurantee to transportation. <br /> <br />Anyway, who said the roads should not be built by the government? I did not. Who said airports should not be built by governments? Not I. <br /> <br />But who said that the aircraft should be state funded? or your car, or mine? Does the government buy your gas for you? Or your tires? No. Do they pay you a stipend to drive? Or for a chauffer? No. The government is not here to provide transportation; rather, to make it possible by providing the system it functions in. Just as the river belongs to the state, but not the boats.
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