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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT size=3><FONT face="Times New Roman">ICLand, </FONT></FONT></P> <P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT size=3><FONT face="Times New Roman"></FONT></FONT> </P> <P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT size=3><FONT face="Times New Roman">I can see your point very clearly in the above explanation.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>So why did the government give land grants to the land grant transcontinental railroads?<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Was this just a mistake in economics, or were there other motivations?<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Did the railroads that accepted these land grants not realize that there would be no market for them in those new territories?<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Or did they have some other motive that over road that drawback?<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN></FONT></FONT></P> <P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA"></SPAN> </P> <P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA">When you say, “There is no such thing as creating "productive territory" when a subsidy is required to build into it ahead of market demand,” how would that analysis apply to the push for a national system of publicly funded HSR today? </SPAN></P>
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