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Amtrack, the government run passenger rail system, purchases soda for $3.40 per serving, and then resells it to customers for $2.00. Meanwhile, McDonald’s purchases soda for 9 cents per serving, and then resells it to customers for $1.29.
wordpress ^ | December 26, 2020 | Dan from Squirrel Hill

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. Meanwhile, McDonald’s purchases soda for 9 cents per serving, and then resells it to customers for $1.29.

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.

Source: https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:sYIxP3SJKxsJ:https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2016/04/13/a-trend-the-restaurant-industry-could-do-without/+&cd=13&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us

In my opinion, cutting taxes is better than having the government waste the taxpayers’ money.


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KEYWORDS: amtrack; amtrak
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1 posted on 12/26/2020 1:15:52 PM PST by grundle
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To: grundle

Yeah.
And you pay NOTHING for your Wordpress blog.
What do you make by promoting it for free here?


2 posted on 12/26/2020 1:18:10 PM PST by humblegunner (Balls To Picasso.)
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To: grundle

$3.40 per serving???

What do they buy?
Or someones cousin is selling?

Makes zero sense.


3 posted on 12/26/2020 1:19:15 PM PST by NachOsten
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To: grundle

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.


4 posted on 12/26/2020 1:20:26 PM PST by txeagle
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To: grundle

Hunter helped streamline their financial model.


5 posted on 12/26/2020 1:21:40 PM PST by SpaceBar
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To: grundle

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.


6 posted on 12/26/2020 1:22:13 PM PST by Paulie (Better Dead than Red)
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To: grundle

Troubling but not surprising numbers.

$69,000 loss per food service employee per year.....


7 posted on 12/26/2020 1:22:46 PM PST by nascarnation
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To: grundle

This is a garbage site. The government-run passenger rail system is called AMTRAK—not Amtrack. Dead giveaway is always incorrect grammar and spelling.


8 posted on 12/26/2020 1:24:14 PM PST by 4Runner
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To: grundle

Amtrack & U.S. Post Office both poorly run. Both claiming to be ‘Going Out Of Business!!!’ for the last 35 years.


9 posted on 12/26/2020 1:24:51 PM PST by lee martell
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To: grundle

You can bet your azz that some politician is getting his off shore account fat from this.


10 posted on 12/26/2020 1:26:29 PM PST by nesnah (Liberals - the petulant children of politics)
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To: grundle

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.


11 posted on 12/26/2020 1:31:19 PM PST by rx (Truth will out!)
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To: 4Runner

So AMTRAK is a well run, efficient entity?


12 posted on 12/26/2020 1:33:14 PM PST by Farmerbob
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To: grundle

If passenger rail was a profitable enterprise we wouldnt be talking about the likes of AMTRAK.


13 posted on 12/26/2020 1:48:43 PM PST by crz
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To: NachOsten

sleepy Joe Biden’s mansion requires hundreds of thousands of dollars for upkeep and taxes


14 posted on 12/26/2020 1:50:40 PM PST by Steven Tyler (President Elect Steven Tyler)
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To: crz

passenger rail could be profitable ... but it’s more profitable for certain individuals (hunter biden) just the way it is.


15 posted on 12/26/2020 1:55:24 PM PST by farmguy
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To: grundle

FWIW: Amtrak dining car meals are included in the price of a sleeping car ticket.


16 posted on 12/26/2020 1:55:48 PM PST by ArmstedFragg (So Long Obie)
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To: grundle

Rolling, rolling, rolling... Keep those subsidies rolling... Amtrak...


17 posted on 12/26/2020 2:03:29 PM PST by SuperLuminal (Where is Sam Adams now that we desperately need him)
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To: grundle

I see the blog police showed up to whine, as if what’s posted on freerepublic is any of his business.


18 posted on 12/26/2020 2:08:01 PM PST by franksolich (Scourge of the primitives)
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To: grundle

Can you say KICKBACK?!


19 posted on 12/26/2020 2:11:00 PM PST by V_TWIN (Where's Hunter???)
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To: grundle

This story is more than 4 years old.


20 posted on 12/26/2020 2:12:46 PM PST by Sasparilla ( I'm Not Tired of Winning)
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