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On 9/4/13 5:19 PM, wrote:
On Wed, 04 Sep 2013 15:43:26 -0400, "F.O.A.D." wrote:

On 9/4/13 3:40 PM, wrote:
On Wed, 04 Sep 2013 12:41:09 -0400, "F.O.A.D." wrote:

On 9/4/13 12:33 PM, wrote:

Avis makes a profit from my rental.
CSX is not even covering their costs from Amtrak and that is actually
tax money from people who never ride a train.

Costs? What costs? Certainly not additional wear and tear, since a short
passenger train weighs only a fraction of what a freight train ways, and
there are only a couple of passenger trains a day between here and
Florida. CSX's approach to track repair seems to be to repair it when a
freight train derails.

OK you may be right Amorak takes our tax money and gives it to CSX for
the use of their track.
How is that any more than another subsidy from people who never ride a
train to the few who do?

Our entire governmental system is based upon the many helping the few.
Why should train travel be any different?

Why should we be subsidizing the cost of flood insurance for those who
purchase it?

So you admit Amtrak is a welfare program.

I just picked the example I knew would get a rise out of you. There are
many programs subsidized by us that benefit the relatively few. Some,
such as research for rare diseases, are necessary for a civilization to
engage in if it is truly civilized. Some are not. I'm sure we could each
make up a list that satisfies our side in this discussion.

Who pays to maintain all those canals you southern Floridians so like?