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Yaktheking t1_izgefxs wrote

Reply to comment by Ironbird207 in Please Bring the Amtrak To Bangor by PhiloBlackCardinal

You can subsidize it but that’s never popular since it is intended to either lose money or pad the pockets of a private company. Socialized losses; privatized gains

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the_bad_engineer08 t1_izgm4zx wrote

Actually most of the bus lines in Maine (and the US) are subsidized by the federal government.

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bluestargreentree t1_izgq299 wrote

All transit is “subsidized”. Driving a car is also heavily subsidized, just in different ways.

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Commercial-Amount344 t1_izkie88 wrote

So If you wanna be hard core anti socialist/anti marxist you drive down the median like a boot strap pulling god? (Yelling America with your sister wife as banjos play YMCA.)

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