05-27-2009, 12:11 PM
According to the standards shown here, every activity in America is "subsidized" in one way or another. AMTRAK is merely another pig at the trough, but quite expensive in view of it's limited service mandate.
I still say let it fail if it can't keep up. The same goes for the airlines. Failure and the re-birth of new industries and services is the way we have always done it, and it has worked quite well. We got into trouble when the government began propping up the failures.
I still say let it fail if it can't keep up. The same goes for the airlines. Failure and the re-birth of new industries and services is the way we have always done it, and it has worked quite well. We got into trouble when the government began propping up the failures.