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[quote user="V.Payne"] Are the people "choosing" ACA health plans at the lower end of the income spectrum truly choosing or having a choice made for them for all practical purposes due to the free money (for now) behind the ACA, and the taxes on the private medical suppliers? The same type of deal was in place (and mostly still is) for alternatives to intercity rail in the post WW II time period, the money would be spent, by leveraging taxes on use of the existing local road system and paying for serious accidents out of general taxes, only if you "choose" highways, all the while taxing railroads (15 then 10% ticket and waybill tax) till the industry is destroyed. There certainly is a financial side to the shift that is still there in the fuel tax finances. It would seem that the polls first mentioned in this post string by DFM are fairly accurate for the purpose as they only cover one district, so the population size is small relative to the sample size. Check out the first post and the complete poll PDFs linked therein if you joined the discussion late. I will post some other polls in a while. [/quote] You don't seem to understand the poll results.  Only 34 per cent of the people contacted in the Texas poll even responded, which is a low response rate.  Moreover, the poll did not use valid statistical sampling, so the results cannot be projected to the population as a whole.  The only thing that the pollsters can said is that a certain per cent of the respondents said such and such.  That is markedly difference from saying that the public or the people said such and such. The one poll that really counts is whether American's ride passenger trains in sufficient numbers and at sufficient rates to cover their costs.  With respect to the long distance trains in particular, the answer is a ringing no.  Amtrak has more than 40 years to figure out how to cover the costs of the long distance trains.  They have failed miserably.  Only someone who has never worked in business and does not understand it would argue that Amtrak, which is a commercial business, should continue to run the long distance trains.
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