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Re: Why Families Don't Ride Trains (or airplanes)
Author: Alvah Crocker
Date: 01-17-2015 - 14:47
The Bearer Of Double Standards Wrote:
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> If tax dollars are being "wasted" on a HSR system,
> we're treated to these types of essays where all
> of you self-appointed experts over-think
> everything and have all the answers.
>
> If taxpayer dollars are "invested" on wars in
> Afghanistan and Iraq, or on college tuition for
> illegal aliens, or studies on the sex life of the
> snail darter, everyone is as quiet as a church
> mouse.
>
> I don't get it.
>
> Why is HSR the favored whipping boy?
>
> Personally, I'd rather have my tax dollars
> "wasted" on high speed rail.
I think you are going overboard. but, yeah... let's waste tax dollars on the elite who provide no functional value to the economy. Good deal, a transit system that allows the wealthy Google programmers fast access to wherever, screw the min-wage tax payer who has to pay for a system he can't afford to use.
Welcome to "America", the land of the takers. .
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> If tax dollars are being "wasted" on a HSR system,
> we're treated to these types of essays where all
> of you self-appointed experts over-think
> everything and have all the answers.
>
> If taxpayer dollars are "invested" on wars in
> Afghanistan and Iraq, or on college tuition for
> illegal aliens, or studies on the sex life of the
> snail darter, everyone is as quiet as a church
> mouse.
>
> I don't get it.
>
> Why is HSR the favored whipping boy?
>
> Personally, I'd rather have my tax dollars
> "wasted" on high speed rail.
I think you are going overboard. but, yeah... let's waste tax dollars on the elite who provide no functional value to the economy. Good deal, a transit system that allows the wealthy Google programmers fast access to wherever, screw the min-wage tax payer who has to pay for a system he can't afford to use.
Welcome to "America", the land of the takers. .
