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[quote user="tiskilwa"]By the way, Futuremodal, I own farmland that I inherited.  It's true, I do.  It seems to me what that inheritance amounts to is essentially a personal "land grant".  So you see just as BNSF inherited land from the Northern Pacific, I inherited land from my family.  Should I be penalized for my inheritance as you would have BNSF be penalized for its inheritance from the Northern Pacific?  Let's let this whole land grant issue go.  It's ancient history, and a dead issue. [/quote] Fine, but one more thing before we close this up - land inheritance, whether personal or corporate, is not a "land grant".  And I have never stated per se that BNSF should be penalized for it's land inheritance from NP.  Rather, the subject of the railroad land grants needs to be kept at the forefront of these discussions, as some seem willing to obfuscate and omit such federal aid when claiming that "everyone else" is subsidized while "railroads are not".  More specifically, there's shear hypocrasy on the part of BNSF to publicly oppose the federal aid for DM&E.
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