RE: your post 27. Thanks, SL. I linked to this thread from another so am kind of late to the party. After reading it, wanted to ask WG what the effect of inflation and wages was on the cost of a gallon of gasoline in the years since it was $.32/gal. You saved me the trouble, again, thanks. As someone upthread said, paraphrasing, rail is something urbanites want everyone else to pay for.
Can anything taste as sweet as Other People's Money (OPM)?
Of course, since we're intolerant of Willie's desire to steal our hard earned capital to fund his delusional train fetish, he thinks were bigots.
Hey Willie, aren't you gonna call us bigots? That's what liberals do when they can't argue the merits of the issue. Maybe you'll call theymakemesick a newby. After all, he signed up in '03 and you're part of the class of '98. You gotta admit, when you stoop to sign up dates to validate your argument, you're in pretty sad shape!
After reading it, wanted to ask WG what the effect of inflation and wages was on the cost of a gallon of gasoline in the years since it was $.32/gal. You saved me the trouble, again, thanks.
You have that backwards.
Rising fuel costs have adversely affected the cost of most everything else in our society.
When gasoline cost 32¢ per gallon, we were living in an era when a single wage earner could raise a family of four in the suburbs, and still set aside enough savings for retirement and send the kids off to college.
Nowadays, it takes a multi-family income to achieve the same standard of living, and ironically, multi-vehicle families who consume more gasoline than the average family of the '60s.
As someone upthread said, paraphrasing, rail is something urbanites want everyone else to pay for.
Are you suggesting that urbanites don't pay taxes like the rest of us???
Millions of hardworking, taxpaying Americans from all walks of life use passenger rail systems to commute back-and-forth to work everyday.
I sincerely hope that you're not among the shameful bigots who utilize "urbanite" and other "code words" to conjure up negative stereotypes of inner city residents.