Why? No one will ride it.
If there is a demand for such a rail, the private market will build it.
If there is not, and government builds it anyway, the result is a dislocation of market resources. It’s wasteful and destructive to the ends of freedom and liberty.
The free market brings the best combination of prices, quality, and rising economic liberty. Government interference is said market destroys all three.
No. OK does NOT need a passenger rail to Chicago. THAT is evident by the fact that such a rail does not exist. And NO. The gov’t has no right nor need to steal my money to bring such a market-inefficient concept into being.
Willie’s mind is made up...don’t confuse him with logic or facts...
They are VERY limited in where they can go (where there are tracks.) They do not easily adjust to the needs of the market (shifting population centers.) The fastest ones are 1/2 the speed of planes. The slowest ones are slower than busses.
Is it the union jobs they produced in droves?
The free market brings the best combination of prices, quality, and rising economic liberty.
That is not true. Mergers and acquisitions lead to market consolidation and oligopolistic behavior that stifles true market competition.
Government intervention is necessary to restore true competition to the marketplace.
Hear, hear. Our (Boise) Mayor, Comrade Dave Bieter, has his shorts in a knot to put in a trolley, even though we have no tourist attractions to support it. His bid for a $40 million federal grant just fell through, but he's still bound and determined to shove it down our throats. So he spent $65,000 of our money to hire a PR firm to "educate" us about the need for a trolley.
To say this guy spends money like a drunken sailor is an insult to drunken sailors.
Scouts Out! Cavalry Ho!
I’m not worried that noone would ride it. I’m worried that we would be flooded by those kind of people.