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Alexander, Thanks for helping me carry the banner on this subject. I have been talking capitolism on this subject for a while and nobody seems to understand. Regrettably, No. 3 is their top reason. I think the other two are just interesting filler for the 'debate'. Funny thing about the comming interstate tolls, [I agree completely they will try and confuse us by calling it something else] that may be the mechanism that actually jump starts passenger rail travel in this country. I think they would have to do something about the low cost of buses before trains would have a significant share of the market. Another friend of mine attacks the problem from a different angle. First he points out that federal grants got the transcontinental railroad started. So he believes the feds should pay for the construction of a dedicated passenger rail network. His other comment is, 'If you build it, they will come.' Now this is real sneaky. If the Feds did build it, at the staggering cost it would require, they would never abandon it and admit they wasted that much money, so they would subsidize it and hide the true cost any way they could. It never ceases to amaze me that Americans will believe they can send a dollar to DC and when DC sends 90 cents back they have made a good investment. Just send a dollar to your locality and get them build your project instead. You get to keep the whole dollar and you don't have to do it their (DCs) way. One other thing I would like to offer. I don't think the railroads made much money taking passengers out West in the 1800s. What they were doing was creating freight markets by having people out there harvesting raw materials to ship back East and creating a demand for goods out West. Thanks again for being reasonable. - Ed
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