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Hortensis

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1. Koch-types neither ride nor ship on Amtrak. Their factories

Reply to unhappycamper (Original post)

Sat Oct 10, 2015, 04:14 PM

Oct 2015

tend not to be located in the kinds of places Amtrak would service or to employ people who can afford Amtrak. They want to pay less in taxes, and this costs money. Not entirely incidentally, they also benefit from an dis-empowered electorate.

As billionaire libertarians, one really can't blame them for deciding there's nothing in it for them.

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Koch-types neither ride nor ship on Amtrak. Their factories Hortensis Oct 2015 #1