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<p>[quote user="henry6"]</p> <p>But ... if the government is charged by the people and their enterprises to provide roads, etc., because they need them, benefit by them, in effect are the users of them, then why should they pay again? This is where I don't understand your defnition of privatising. Private is private...an enterprise funded completely by private funds for a return on investment. As soon as the government steps in with a subsidy or owns part of the system either the property or the operation, it is public whether it is 100% government or 1% government. The government buys something from me or hires me to do a job because the public needs it or benefits from it. Simple. If private enterprise buys something from me or hires me, it is private enterprise and has nothing to do with government. SImple. [/quote]</p> <p>If the government allows a business to use the tax code to deduct R&D expenses, is that a subsidy? Is it no longer a private entity? </p> <p>I don't know of anyone who has said that the government has no role to play in transport or any other activity for that matter. The question is who should operate the systems and who should pay for them?</p> <p>I worked for an investor owned electric utility for most of my working life. We were a private entity, but we were regulated by federal and state regulators. That is the way it should be. So does that mean that we were no longer a private entity because we were regulated?</p> <p>The Norfolk and Southern as well as CSX run over the NEC, which is owned by governments. Does this mean that they are no longer investor owned, private businesses?</p>
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