Trains, Planes, Lies and Videotape

The public transit lobby has caused taxpayers to squander hundreds of billions of dollars on Amtrak, light rail, heavy rail, public bus systems, bullet trains, trollies, stations, parking lots and the cannibalization of roads and highways. 

None of this public transit is economically sustainable.  It’s a money loser for that taxpayers forever.  The cost of building and opening these systems accounts for a large chunk of the “hundreds of billions”, but the operating and maintenance costs still don’t allow these systems to operate at “break-even”.

This is a bad business plan and needs to be replaced by “free market” solutions.  We need to return these to the private sector to fix or close and replace with something that is financially sustainable.

It looks like they are in a battle to compete with private airline and bus services with taxpayers paying the difference.  But even with heavy taxpayer subsidies, utilization is poor.  All we see is empty buses and empty train cars. We are paying a fortune in tax dollars for empty trains and buses.

All of these “transportation” tax subsidies should stop. California should have spent their “hundreds of billions” on water reservoirs.

Norb Leahy, Dunwoody GA Tea Party Leader