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[quote user="schlimm"] "I graduated from Penn State, Columbia, and SMU with degrees in economics, accounting, and finance.  I am widely read in those subjects.  I just finished reading Keynes General Theory for the second time."  Occasional examples of how the DB (or the Northern Rail in the UK) run passenger service is far more germane to postings on the passenger forum than your recitation of your degree(s).  An accurate analogy would be if I simply mentioned riding the DB without giving specifics of their practices.  Along the lines of my comments on the DB, you give frequent and useful comments concerning your many trips on Amtrak as well as Australian systems. You ask for evidence on the subsidy question.  I have no opinion, but since you ask, I wonder what your evidence is? [/quote] About what?  That not all 3.5 million plus businesses in the U.S. receive subsidies as was stated by henry6, except that he stated all businesses.   Wanna know where the 3.5 million figure comes from. Look it up in IRS statistics.  There is a slew of them. It helps to have some expertise in the tax code to fully understand them. Accountants tend to have that expertise. Just like our engineer friends by stating or implying their backgrounds give me greater comfort in their discussion of technical issues. Oh, I do need to make a minor qualification on the figures. The number of businesses that had taxable income in 2009.  If one counts the number of businesses without taxable income, it is over 5 million. Or that only 2.8 per cent of start-up businesses in the U.S. with employees receive government (SBA) financial assistance.  Check it out. I have presented more factual information in my posts than most of the people who write to these forums.  Again, I don't appreciate your comments on my style. Please keep your comments to the subject at hand. You are not the moderator of these forums.
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