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CSX, A word of advice: If you want your posts to be taken seriously, try to be a little more coherent. Then (once your posts are legible) if you want your arguments to have merit, try to address the points being made without going off on a tangent. So far, your retorts (at least the ones we can read) are weak. Case in point: Your retort to M Sol"s example of wage discrimination for workers from different towns totally misses the point. If two workers of the same seniority and ability are paid drastically different wages, the one being low balled would have a cow. Mileage pay is not wages, it is compensation for use of private vehicles in the course of work and is meant only to repay wear and tear on your vehicle. The example of having users of the LA to Chicago corridor pay for the upgrades rather than captive shippers who don't even use that corridor only follows logic. The concept of the user fee is applicable to private industry as well as public expenditure. What BNSF is doing is charging higher rates in one part of the country to help pay for track upgrades in another part, e.g. the payers of the higher rates are not the recipients of improved service. THAT is a true example of robbing Peter to pay Paul. If LA - Chicago shippers want expansion of the BNSF race track, then they should pay for it. By the way, what exactly is a "communest"? Selector: A business is totaly dependent on it's customers, therefore any business that thinks it's first loyalty is to investors is a business that will eventually **** off enough customers to the point of causing a loss to those investors. You're also a bit behind the times in regards to what other countries have done. Nationalization of rail lines is a thing of the past. What those nations have done is to return the nationalized railroads to the private sector under an open access regiment. Thus, those rail customers are the beneficiaries of competition, while the infrastructure owner is the recipient of certain tax incentives to ease the strain of capital ownership. It is the best possible scenario for returning freight to the rails, and needs to be implemented here ASAP.
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