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If Nixon hadn’t been so far left, he would have deregulated the railroads and then the private companies could have used their own funds to speed up the trains themselves. They were trying during the 50s and 60s, but the regulation and taxation kept piling on.

[Olog-hai]

By “they were trying” I meant the private railroad companies. They had all sorts of high-speed experimental trains, e.g. Talgo/ACF, Train X, even United Aircraft’s Turbotrain, but the federal and state governments kept sucking the life out of those companies and building “infrastructure” of the competing modes.

Support any socialist movement to give centralized control over any part of the culture … — The Naked Communist, Chapter 12

Centralization of the means of communication and transport in the hands of the State. — Communist Manifesto, Chapter 2

We cannot say we weren’t warned, and all this government involvement in “infrastructure” no matter what type it is has to end.

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But that would have meant the Northeastern Entitlement Class would have actually have had to be footing the actual cost is operation.