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Re: NY congressman Higgins writes Amtrak's Moorman in support of reopening Buffalo Central Terminal |
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Posted by Joe V on Wed Mar 22 07:25:53 2017, in response to Re: NY congressman Higgins writes Amtrak's Moorman in support of reopening Buffalo Central Terminal, posted by Nilet on Tue Mar 21 20:07:57 2017. Land Grans were a de facto loan in which railroads had to offer reduced rates so as to pay them off . What part of that URL from the AAR did you not understand ?Your STUPID analogies are meaningless. in 1945, Congress determined their land grants to have been more than paid off. THERE WAS NO SUBSIDY from that point on. Furthemore, they OWNED their right of way. The loan lender was the federal government acting as investment banker. Loans are NOT subsidies by the government or the investment bank. Airlines get FREE AIR TRAFFIC CONTROL and the Air ticket tax does not come close to covering all expenses. The expense borne by the passenger has no impact on the airlines bank account. Therefore they don't pay it - they pass it through. Airports get a subsidy by residing on non-ratable property, so there is no expense to be passed to the airlines, therefor they benefit from that subsidy as well. |
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