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Re: Small western towns to lose Amtrak service if states can't pay up |
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Posted by Olog-hai on Tue Apr 22 13:43:53 2014, in response to Re: Small western towns to lose Amtrak service if states can't pay up, posted by Henry R32 #3730 on Mon Apr 21 19:38:15 2014. Were Amtrak not created, we wouldn't even have a shell of a national rail system todayPresumptuous reasoning. The regulations and taxation along with the federal government competing against rail with other modes is what led to Amtrak's creation. Much of the deregulation that occurred (extremely belatedly) under the Staggers Act could have forestalled the creation of Amtrak and reversed the abandonment of passenger service by private companies, and even forestalled the utterly-unnecessary creation of Conrail. |
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