Comments on: Against All Odds, Florida Rail Authority Rolls On http://www.jaxobserver.com/2009/05/26/rail-authority-rolls-on-despite-vacancy-expired-terms/ Your Independent Alternative! Sat, 13 Aug 2011 16:20:42 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: jim harper http://www.jaxobserver.com/2009/05/26/rail-authority-rolls-on-despite-vacancy-expired-terms/comment-page-1/#comment-246 jim harper Wed, 27 May 2009 05:35:20 +0000 http://www.jaxobserver.com/?p=1379#comment-246 Of course there won't be enough ridership to pay for it. Otherwise, some private enterprise would have paid for the whole thing. We spend only 3% of the federal budget on transportation. That's why interstate highway bridges fall into the Mississippi (Minneapolis) and why half-trained airplane pilots barely making more than the minimum wage are allowed to fly dozens of passengers to their deaths into ice storms. (Buffalo). By raising the capital gains tax rate from 15% to 20% we could buy TWO 300 mile long 200 mph every year for the indefinite future. Let's do it. Of course there won’t be enough ridership to pay for it. Otherwise, some private enterprise would have paid for the whole thing. We spend only 3% of the federal budget on transportation. That’s why interstate highway bridges fall into the Mississippi (Minneapolis) and why half-trained airplane pilots barely making more than the minimum wage are allowed to fly dozens of passengers to their deaths into ice storms. (Buffalo).

By raising the capital gains tax rate from 15% to 20% we could buy TWO 300 mile long 200 mph every year for the indefinite future. Let’s do it.

]]> By: W. B. LaCroix http://www.jaxobserver.com/2009/05/26/rail-authority-rolls-on-despite-vacancy-expired-terms/comment-page-1/#comment-241 W. B. LaCroix Tue, 26 May 2009 22:47:18 +0000 http://www.jaxobserver.com/?p=1379#comment-241 I don't think there will be enough ridership to pay for it and I don't want to pay for bragging rights. I don’t think there will be enough ridership to pay for it and I don’t want to pay for bragging rights.

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