US federal taxes are a farce. They’re ostensibly progressive but in reality regressive, being a sieve of legal, semi-legal, and unenforced illegal loopholes for the top ~10%.
The rail network is owned by private companies, which give priority right-of-way to freight over passenger trains, so the few extant passenger lines are wildly unreliable (despite most of them being nationalized under Amtrak). The State can and should commandeer the entire network via eminent domain.
US federal taxes are a farce. They’re ostensibly progressive but in reality regressive, being a sieve of legal, semi-legal, and unenforced illegal loopholes for the top ~10%.
The rail network is owned by private companies, which give priority right-of-way to freight over passenger trains, so the few extant passenger lines are wildly unreliable (despite most of them being nationalized under Amtrak). The State can and should commandeer the entire network via eminent domain.