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Re: Sunday supplement "Parade" cover photo

Author: Coleman Lantern

Date: 11-04-2007 - 20:33

Show me any country that has made it profitable-or breaks even-hauling people and their belongings. Don't get me wrong; I agree with you 100% on the 'spin' of polls. Yet Amtrak, and probably any other medium, will always choke without capital investment and continued annual supplements hauling people around because you can't resell a person (well, not legally, anyway.) like you can a carload of tires.

I wonder how profitable airlines would be if they had to pay a comparable per-capita percentage for upkeep, expansion and maintenance of airports and facilities. And what about their right-of-way? The sky is free! Trucking companies, railroads and even Amtrak has to pay for right-of-way upkeep, and their respective terminals as well.

Let's see the Interstate highway system, Amtrak and the airlines all get EQUAL per-capita tax dollars.

Well, I suppose I've given it a good stir....

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Subject	Written By	Date/Time (PST)
Sunday supplement "Parade" cover photo	Dick Seelye	11-04-2007 - 07:39
Re: Sunday supplement "Parade" cover photo	Ernest H. Robl	11-04-2007 - 12:36
Re: Sunday supplement "Parade" cover photo	Dave Smith	11-04-2007 - 17:51
Re: Sunday supplement "Parade" cover photo	Coleman Lantern	11-04-2007 - 20:33
Re: Sunday supplement "Parade" cover photo	Jim Quigg	11-04-2007 - 20:12
Responses to my note about the cover photo	Dick Seelye	11-04-2007 - 22:26
Re: Responses to my note about the cover photo	cajon	11-05-2007 - 16:37
Re: Responses to my note about the cover photo	Rich Hunn	11-05-2007 - 17:32
Re: Responses to my note about the cover photo	cajon	11-05-2007 - 20:46
Re: Responses to my note about the cover photo	Rich Hunn	11-05-2007 - 22:22
Re: Responses to my note about the cover photo	Mike Swanson	11-08-2007 - 12:21
Re: Responses to my note about the cover photo	Dave Smith	11-05-2007 - 19:58
Response to Dave Smith	Dick Seelye	11-06-2007 - 00:57

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Coleman Lantern Wrote:
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> Show me any country that has made it profitable-or
> breaks even-hauling people and their belongings.
> Don't get me wrong; I agree with you 100% on the
> 'spin' of polls. Yet Amtrak, and probably any
> other medium, will always choke without capital
> investment and continued annual supplements
> hauling people around because you can't resell a
> person (well, not legally, anyway.) like you can a
> carload of tires.  
> 
> I wonder how profitable airlines would be if they
> had to pay a comparable per-capita percentage for
> upkeep, expansion and maintenance of airports and
> facilities. And what about their right-of-way? The
> sky is free! Trucking companies, railroads and
> even Amtrak has to pay for right-of-way upkeep,
> and their respective terminals as well.
> 
> Let's see the Interstate highway system, Amtrak
> and the airlines all get EQUAL per-capita tax
> dollars.
> 
> Well, I suppose I've given it a good stir....

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