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[quote user="YoHo1975"] The government is not a business that should do things based on profit motive. It's job is the promotion of life, liberty and property for all Americans. In either case, the promotion of the railroads for the betterment of the country has long been funded by the government. That makes it a subsidy. The fact that those land grants generated money does not somehow make it not a subsidy. [/quote] If those land grants generated more return to the government than it cost them, then they absolutely were NOT a subsidy.  Just because they were grants, does not mean they were subsidies.   And if the government entered into the land grant agreement for the purpose of making what you call a profit, there is nothing wrong with that.  What is wrong with “the people” making a profit collectively?  Why wouldn’t a profit by government add to the life, liberty, and property of all Americans?  Back in the land grant era, the government was probably capable of making a profit in concert with the private sector to their mutual benefit.  Today they are not.
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