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<p>[quote user="Phoebe Vet"]</p> <p> <blockquote> <div><img src="/TRCCS/Themes/trc/images/icon-quote.gif" /> <strong>Bucyrus:</strong></div> <div></div> <p> <blockquote> <div><img src="/TRCCS/Themes/trc/images/icon-quote.gif" /> <strong>Convicted One:</strong></div> <div></div> <p> <blockquote> <div><img src="/TRCCS/Themes/trc/images/icon-quote.gif" /> <strong>Bucyrus:</strong></div> <div></div> <p> </p> <p><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman';font-size:12pt;mso-fareast-font-family:'Times New Roman';mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-language:EN-US;mso-bidi-language:AR-SA;"><span style="font-family:verdana,geneva;"><span style="font-size:small;"><span style="mso-spacerun:yes;">  </span>You could just as well have the government just pay the freight railroads to provide a good quality passenger service rather than give them a tax break.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes;">  </span></span></span><span style="mso-spacerun:yes;"></span></span></p> <div style="clear:both;"></div> <p> </p> </blockquote> </p> <p> </p> <p>It's always been my impression that it's easier for government to forgo revenue, than it is for them to assemble funding.  When you are putting together a funding package, everyone wants to stir the pot, whereas with the alternative the majority will leave well enough alone so long as their  own sacred cows are not impacted. <img src="/TRCCS/emoticons/icon_smile_2cents.gif" alt="My 2 Cents" /></p> <div style="clear:both;"></div> <p> </p> </blockquote> </p> <p><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman';font-size:12pt;mso-fareast-font-family:'Times New Roman';mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-language:EN-US;mso-bidi-language:AR-SA;"><span style="font-family:verdana,geneva;"><span style="font-size:small;">I know what you mean, but times are changing.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes;">  </span>I have just recently learned that every tax that does not exist amounts to government spending.</span></span><span style="mso-spacerun:yes;"><span style="font-family:verdana,geneva;"><span style="font-size:small;"> </span></span> </span></span></p> <div style="clear:both;"><span style="color:#000000;"></span></div> <p> <blockquote> <div><span style="color:#000000;"></span></div> </blockquote> </p> <span style="color:#000000;"></span></blockquote> </p> <p><span style="color:#800000;">Don't think of it as a tax break, think of it as a bartered payment in lieu of taxes.  With the commercial enterprise free to set their own rates and run an agreed frequency of passenger trains any way they wish, they might even be able to find a way to make it revenue neutral if not profitable.</span></p> <p><span style="color:#800000;">Never under estimate the ingenuity of someone trying to make money.</span></p> <div style="clear:both;"></div> <p>[/quote]</p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva;"><span style="font-size: small;">I understand what you are saying, but nobody is going to actually be making any money in the deal no matter how it is structured.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>If the freight railroads were given enough public money for them to break even or even make a profit running passenger trains, it still would be a subsidized passenger rail service.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>It would be nationalized passenger rail, although with operation contracted to the freight railroads as private operators.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span></span></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva;"><span style="font-size: small;"> <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva;"><span style="font-size: small;">I don’t see how any rabbit can be pulled out of the hat just because the operation is contracted out to the private sector. </span></span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva;"><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></span> </span></span></p>
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