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[quote user="schlimm"] [quote user="Sam1"]The United States is a different culture. So what! The argument that we should be like the other countries, with which we may not have a lot in common, and some of which may be hostile to our national interests, is akin to saying my family needs to spend itself into bankruptcy because the family two doors down is doing it.[/quote] Eliminate merely the oil depletion allowance (approximately $1 bil. annually) and you would cover ~3 years of Amtrak's government paid for subsidy, even if LD trains are retained).   You say our culture is so different from the rest of the world?   Perhaps living in TX, you might well think so, but there are plenty of other areas in the US that would like to have the options for transportation afforded to citizens in other modern nations.  People in some states have been and are willing to continue to pay for those corridor services. [/quote] My comment had more to do with the form of ownership of a commercial enterprise - Amtrak - than whether we should have transport options.  We should.  But they should be driven by the market place, i.e. what people demonstrate a willingness to pay for in an arms length transaction.
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