What a surprise given the fuckery he pulled with Hyperloop and California high speed rail
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How bout we increase funding to those things instead. No one should be competing with either of those services.
Ffs. Not everything fits cleanly into a for-profit model. Health care, postal service, and public transportation are great examples.
This is how we know that billionaires are grifters far more than they are economists.
At least this one will be tougher. The postal service is in the constitution.
Who will enforce the constitution?
It might have to be you.
No one asked you, prickasaurus rex. Go back to your hovel and tweet angrily at the news like a good boy
Don't you DARE touch my trains.
"Did somebody touch my ~~boats~~ trains? WHO TOUCHED MY ~~BOATS~~ TRAINS?!"
Sounds like “somebody” is about to launch Xmail and AmtraX, coincidentally of course
He doesn't understand the second 'S' in USPS. Stable genius.
Nationalize Amazon.
Vital US services shouldn't be privatized! You remember when firefighting companies extorted people to put out fires? If you didn't have their symbol out front or weren't current on your payments, they would just watch your home burn down...
tl;Dr fuck off and eat shit, idiot
Correct me if I'm wrong, but Amtrak is private, though. It's publicly subsidized, but it's not a government agency AFAIK. Same for the post office. Part of the problem with Amtrak, though, is that the state of passenger rail in the US is still down in the septic tank, largely due to almost 100 years of government subsidized car-centric development and heavily subsidized air transit development. You'd have a very hard time attracting private investors interested in a conventional passenger rail mass transit scheme, I think.
Also, everybody benefits, even this fucking douche, when public transit is high quality and affordable. Even if a private company did offer high quality, affordable mass transit, the insatiable drive for ever increasing profits will eventually cause them to enshittify one or both and put us right back here. This is really just another attempt to transfer public wealth into private portfolios, though it's a little more of a joke compared to privatization efforts in Europe because we basically haven't been investing at all in public transit for the last fifty years
USPS is not publicly subsidized. All of their operating costs come from the services they sell.
It's quasi-public, which is weird. It is subsidized, but just barely (they have like 95% farebox recovery), so i don't think it's even responsible to call it subsidized like road and air travel.
I bet if there was enforcement of train priority laws, they could even be a revenue generator. Philosophically, I dont think they should be, though.
Edit: lmao, at those rates, Amtrak is less publicly subsidized than a lot of fortune 500s
I'd be cool with Amtrak turning profit as long as the revenue was always re-invested into better train sets, better routes, more frequent service, cheaper tickets, employee pay and benefits, etc etc, and never just routed to rich fucking assholes who already have more than they know what to do with.