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Only to the extent that any type of tax credit to any entity (business or the individual come 1040 time) is a taxpayer subsidy. I don't think things could be worse than they are now, given condition the passenger service is today. And there is a demand for the service. A recent Washington Post poll showed strong support for the service. However, yearly fights over congressional appropriation and generous labor severance packages almost guarantees that the service will continue to be a "hand to mouth" operation. If we are going to keep passenger service, lets try something else other than just throwing money at it, or selling it off piecemeal to operators who will fail given the opposition of the mainline freight railroads.