Comments by "" () on "Did GM really kill the streetcar in Los Angeles?" video.
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@NyanSten You're WRONG about the railroads; they use diesel power because GENERAL MOTORS pulled some BULLSHIT with the companies that produced electric locomotives, making them artificially MORE EXPENSIVE than inefficient diesel power!! Furthermore, General Motors played a big hand in the Public Utilities Holding Trust Act of 1932 (?) which stated that railroads could no longer own the power plants that fed their overhead wires/third rails, and had to sell them to the (local) utility companies, which then PROFITTED HANDSOMELY!! This, in addition to taxes collected because of private property ownership, is what caused the railroads to falter miserably, while the other transportation modes, WHICH HAVE NEVER PAID THEIR OWN WAY (except for water-borne craft), AND HAVE ALWAYS DEPENDED ON HUGE, HAND-OVER-FIST EXCESSIVE SUBSIDIES!!!!
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@LancesArmorStriking YES, CARS DO HAVE AN ENORMOUS INFRASTRUCTURE, AND IT ALL CAME FROM TAXPAYERS WHO DON'T EVEN OWN A SINGLE PERSONAL MOTOR VEHICLE!!!!
Well, maybe not 'all', but the VAST MAJORITY of the funding for automotive roadway surfaces, whether streets, roads, highways, "freeways", "expressways", etc. came from those without cars!! General tax dollars are used to fund the construction and maintenance of EVERY MILLIMETER of automotive paved surface, in addition to whatever "gas/fuel taxes" that may be collected from motorists.
In SEVERAL other posts on this subject, on this YouTube channel, I offer suggestions for leveling the playing field when it comes to transportation funding; one is to require that taxes collected from railroad private property CANNOT BE USED TO FUND OTHER TRANSPORTATION MODES, and WHEN A RAILROAD IS TAXED FOR PROPERTY IMPROVEMENTS, ANY DOLLAR AMOUNT OVER AND ABOVE WHAT WOULD BE COLLECTED ON AN UNIMPROVED RIGHT-OF-WAY WOULD BE DEPOSITED INTO A SPECIAL TEUST FUND TO BE USED FOR RAIL PURPOSES ONLY!! The second one is that MOTORISTS, AND MOTORISTS ALONE MUST PAY FOR THE SURFACES THEY DRIVE THEIR VEHICLES ON, and this can be achieved by PRIVATIZING THE INTERSTATE HIGHWAY NETWORK be breaking it down state by state, and turning that state's portion of the network into PRIVATE LAND TO BE COLLECTIVELY OWNED BY THE MOTORISTS OF THAT STATE!! This means that if they purchase a motor vehicle (regardless of whether it's a car, BUS, or TRUCK), THEY PAY TAXES ON A PORTION OF THE HIGHWAY IN THEIR STATE OF RESIDENCE!!!! Along these lines, TOLLS CAN BE COLLECTED FROM THOSE WHO LIVE IN OTHER STATES THAT DO NOT DIRECTLY BORDER THAT PARTICULAR STATE, and that could help GREATLY with practically ALL roadway needs!!!!
(I also mention similar ways in which the aviation industry must be treated as well, since they ALSO GUZZLE HUGE AMOUNTS OF TRANSPORTATION DOLLARS, YET RETURN LITTLE)!!!!!!!!
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