Re: Amtrak Is For the Blue @#$%&
Author: Joe Magruder
Date: 11-13-2016 - 21:06
While the Northeast Corridor is a blue state thing, the long distance trains, except for their end points, primarily serve red states. Thus, the issue for legislators representing blue states is justifying the use their constituents' taxes to provide services (in this case Amtrak, but health care, highways, education raise the same issue) to people in red states. (In general the flow of federal tax money is from blue states to red states.)