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Actually, another real biggie historically, at least as far as ATK is concerned, is that their subsidy as reported in the various statistical monographs, studies, reports and diatribes also inevitably includes corporate G+A & overhead, depreciation of equipment (an accounting convenience that's mythological for most ATK equipment which was bought with direct Federal grants and will be replaced with same, if replaced), cross-subsidies for operation of non-ATK transit agency train movements in the NEC segments controlled by ATK (a little bennie guaranteed by a rep from NJ who chaired HR Trans at the time), contributions to RR retirement, FELA claims, as well as direct capital and maintenance expenditures for vehicles (ditto on that one for transit, rail or not). In contrast, in all the years I've watched these numbers, I've yet to see the corporate cost for operating FHWA and the state DOTs/highway depts factored into the highway subsidy number that is compared to the other modes which do contain such numbers. In this business, apples are rarely apples and oranges are rarely oranges. <br /> <br />With regard to statistics used in politics, never, EVER forget the immortal words of Humpty Dumpty to Alice: "Words mean what I want them to".
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