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I need to comment on something Mark Hemphill pointed out to Larry: Larry: We're working on an article on exactly that issue -- subsidy. The rough number is this: if tolls on the Chicago Tri-State Tollway were based on highway wear, and if your toll is $0.50, the 18-wheeler next to you should pay $457.00. Unfortunately, it pays $1.50. Let's not forget that with all the branchline abandonments and terminal consolidations, today's railroads are wholly dependent on trucks to get the grain to the railhead. If we forced trucks to pay the full cost of road maintenance, no one could afford to get the product from the farm to the railhead in the first place. Either automobiles help subsidize the truckers' share of road maintenance, or none of us gets to eat! Dave Smith
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