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 [quote]QUOTE: Originally posted by CG9602 Here's one thing to think about for those who want to privatize or shut down rail service: How aboput privatizing every last inch of the Interstate Highway System, and having the new owners charge what the market will bear? We expect Amtrak to turn a profit, how about expecting the same of the Interstates? Oh, and while you're at it, privatize all metropolitan airports, and the entire U.S. air traffic control system. If you can't afford to by stock ownership in a particular airport, have a rule that your airline can't serve that city. How many airlines would stay in business if they had to build airports completely from the ground up? I say, if we are going to privatize intercity and interstate rail service, let's privatize the Interstate Highways, make them all toll roads, as well as my suggestions regarding airports. /sarcasm/ Oh wait - that might force us all to recognise our contradictions! Heaven forbid, we can't have that! /sarcasm/ [/quote] What makes you think there aren't plans to do just that? Private highways have been proposed in Texas and tollways exist in many other states. Even the non-combat units of the military are being outsourced to private contractors. Maybe the Feds have a plan to sell the Mississippi River to BNSF.[:D][:D][:D]
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