Posted on 12/26/2020 1:15:52 PM PST by grundle
Amtrack, the government run passenger rail system, purchases soda for $3.40 per serving, and then resells it to customers for $2.00. So they are selling it at a loss. The taxpayers make up the difference.
Source: https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/amtrak-lost-800m-on-cheeseburgers-and-soda
Meanwhile, McDonald’s purchases soda for 9 cents per serving, and then resells it to customers for $1.29. So they make a profit.
In my opinion, cutting taxes is better than having the government waste the taxpayers’ money.
Yeah.
And you pay NOTHING for your Wordpress blog.
What do you make by promoting it for free here?
$3.40 per serving???
What do they buy?
Or someones cousin is selling?
Makes zero sense.
In my opinion, revoking government’s consent to govern and not sending it money to repetitively engage in such boondoggle is the only way to end the insanity.
Hunter helped streamline their financial model.
When you are a monopoly and not subject to market forces and you have Uncle Sugar as an ATM machine, who cares?
They know they sell at a loss. This reeks of political favors and kickbacks and keeping a legitimately run railroad out of the way.
Troubling but not surprising numbers.
$69,000 loss per food service employee per year.....
This is a garbage site. The government-run passenger rail system is called AMTRAK—not Amtrack. Dead giveaway is always incorrect grammar and spelling.
Amtrack & U.S. Post Office both poorly run. Both claiming to be ‘Going Out Of Business!!!’ for the last 35 years.
You can bet your azz that some politician is getting his off shore account fat from this.
It makes perfect sense if the Biden family has the soda concession and they’re doing the selling to AMTRAK for $3.40 per serving while they receive each $0.09-value serving at no cost to them as a political donation from Pepsi and Coca-cola.
So AMTRAK is a well run, efficient entity?
If passenger rail was a profitable enterprise we wouldnt be talking about the likes of AMTRAK.
sleepy Joe Biden’s mansion requires hundreds of thousands of dollars for upkeep and taxes
passenger rail could be profitable ... but it’s more profitable for certain individuals (hunter biden) just the way it is.
FWIW: Amtrak dining car meals are included in the price of a sleeping car ticket.
Rolling, rolling, rolling... Keep those subsidies rolling... Amtrak...
I see the blog police showed up to whine, as if what’s posted on freerepublic is any of his business.
Can you say KICKBACK?!
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