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[quote]QUOTE: Originally posted by M.W. Hemphill For those of you that want Amtrak to go away: you're wasting your breath. If you truly value the ideals you espouse, try offering Amtrak's supporters an alternative that makes more sense to them. [/quote] All we want is for those who actually use Amtrak to pay a ticket price that covers the costs of providing that service. Hardly a radical demand! If the people of a certain region feel the need to subsidize Amtrak riders, then let them pay the tax for it at the state level, and take it out of the hands of the nation at large. If the blue states of the NEC want the special treatment of having the nation's only high speed passenger rail service, then for crying out loud, let them pay for it. Finally, I have yet to find a pro-Amtrak type (or even an alleged neutral bystander like MWH) who has addressed why the nation needs a federally funded national passenger rail service, but not a federally funded national passenger bus service, nor a federally funded national passenger riverboat service, nor a federally funded national passenger airship service,.......
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