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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 18:16:51 2017, in response to Re: NY congressman Higgins writes Amtrak's Moorman in support of reopening Buffalo Central Terminal, posted by Nilet on Wed Mar 22 17:39:31 2017. Your apartment and Econ 101 lectures and examples are stupid, meaningless and irrelevant.You also do not understand the difference between a long term loan and a subsidy and are trying to equate them. The land that they took from the Indians did not cost the government anything to begin with. The government did not give the railroads anything for free because the railroads had to make implicit payments back to the government in terms of reduced rates. There was no "gift". The railroads paid off their loan and did not keep any subsidy because there was NO SUBSIDY. No cash went from the government to any railroad. It only flowed the other way to the government. In order for planes to FLY, they have to TAKE OFF from an airport, that is tax free property, a subsidy, on an airport that was built with TAX-FREE MUNI BONDS, another subsidy. I won't even get into the fact that airlin3s cheat the system with fees to get revenue rather than raise fares so as to circumvent the air ticket tax, which forces moire subsidies to pay for air traffic control. Since the government is entirely involved with airports, the concept of free market does not exist, as much as you keep bringing it up. |
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