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When dealing with monopolists actions, a laize faire approach does not work. Society simply has to be proactive in response, or lose any chance of enabling a free market mechanism to ameliorate the societal costs of monopoly empowerment. It is unfortunate that the State of Montana has been forced into a situation of having to construct solutions to a problem that is having a major negative effect on their economy. And the State will grow old and die before the feds come to the rescue. After all, the feds are the ones who created and allowed this situation to fester when the Milwaukee PCE was ordered torn up. Hmmmm, the Northeast gets bailed out by the creation of Conrail, while the Northern Tier gets the shaft! <br /> <br />When the Supreme Court ruled on the eminent domain issue, they ruled that states have the right to use this power if it had a positive effect on tax revenues. Since BNSF has pushed the State of Montana to the brink of an ag recession, the state must respond in a way that best corrects the negative affects BNSF's actions will have on the State's bottom line. Using eminent domain to take over certain of BNSF's lines, an action that will result in other Class I's such as CP and UP being able to provide connections and thus play a true free market game in competing for the priviledge of hauling Montana grain, is certainly one response that will provide a viable solution. <br /> <br />And if you think that's "communism", please tell when in the history of Marxism has there ever been an example of a communist action intended to foster competition? The answer is of course there hasn't, because fostering competition is a violation of communists tenets. Same for socialist and fascist governments. Only under a representative government can actions be taken that serve to break up monopolist power for the benefit of the free market.
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