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Having government put down tax-payer money into public transportation IS NOT socialism. Of course the rxr companies don't want to pay for it. They don't care about the public good or energy indepence or the benefits of having people travel by rail as opposed to highway - they care about making MONEY. Not that there's anything necessarily wrong with caring solely about that (though some may rightfully argue with this point). I think we'd all agree that both the public and the government have a lot to gain by funding/subsidizing, giving tax breaks to rail transport. The automobile industry would, of course, disagree, whine and lobby the hell out of washington, though. I DO think that eventually the democrats will come around and realize that there's a direct connection between funding amtrak AND being on the path towards this "energy independence" that they're so commonly talking about. AT least I hope like hell they will. Amtrak certainly has a MUCH BETTER chance with the democrats than with the republicans.
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