Dear Taxpayer - A.)people will heed you more if you demonstrate literacy, i.e. the word is coroner, not cornier. The one (coroner) derives from the Latin for crown, and was originally a royal official who was to look after the crown's interest, whether in justice or the royal share of the loot, the other being the relative adjective of corny, as in a bad joke, yeah?
B.)It is implicit in your post that you think the guv'mint involved RR ,Amtrak, must be a drain on the public fisc unparalleled anywhere and uniquely dangerous to the res publica. If so, this is a demonstrable fallacy, in that such costs are orders of magnitude greater for our roads and the car drivers that daily kill, maim, and financially cost both their private and our public funds. Or are you just irked by the fatal inattention of the person, now dead. Not punishment enough?
In my 19 years in the paid and volunteer fire service. nobody has complained in my hearing about the costs of responding to any of the dozens of road-related emergencies to which I have responded, including those involving fatalities.
It is an irrefutable fact that,even accounting for trespassing and other pedestrian fatalities, passenger travel by train is orders of magnitude safer than by autombile, even on a proportional basis. (I'm sure one of the RR pros on the board can even quote the statistics, as alas I don't have them to hand)
My point is that YOU lose more in higher insurance costs from uninsured drivers alone than you will ever pay (or anybody else, for that matter) in tax contributions to the clean-up ot hese RR related, hideous messes. Really, misdirection is for magic acts and the Wizard of Oz, not here.