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<p>Samantha, the question should not be "who received the subsidies"- that's a matter of public record.  The question should be, "What did they do with them when they got them?"  Did they get an HST or a boondoggle bridge to nowhere?  When you ask what goals or values resulted from those subsidies, I would add the question- did those goals and values reach an appropriate base of people?  To illustrate the question, what effect does an ACELA serving the Eastern seaboard have on Californians?  Texans?  Floridians?  Practically speaking, no effect at all, yet federal tax dollars from everyone are spent on a relative few people.</p><p>That's the kind of question people have about AMTRAK, light rail projects, and railroads in general... and is the sort of thing journalists label as "pork barrel projects".</p>
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