“Well Amtrak trains riding rails in the Northeast make money.”
True, but the majority of the people in the northeast live and reside in a close environment. And that is fine; however, not all of us want, nor NEED to live in this type surrounding.
I live in a town where the closest convenience store is about two miles away. My grocery store is six miles - one way.
I live about an hour driving time from my house to my city office. I have land to farm and I don’t hear the road noise from my backyard - that’s the way I like it and want it.
There are things in which the government needs to be involved - public roads is one of them - IMO.
Rails are roads too.
My opinion is that the Federal government should not be in the intestate highway business only because I think a private company can build and maintain them cheaper and more efficiently.
I don’t care which mode of transportation is used.
If you support a federally controlled interstate highway system your argument against a federally controlled rail system is weak. They are both roads.