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Originally Posted by demonrail666
That argument's fine if you have a viable alternative up and ready to replace it, but without one I think the social benefits of subsidising a dying enterprise are what ultimately stand between communities that are just about barely holding on and the actual disaster of those abandoned mining towns in the north of England or the rust belt in the US.
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o man! this got lost in the shuffle im sorry
so... i dont understand this very well
the rails are hugely profitable you say
and the the government is subsidizing unprofitable rail lines to keep them open for whom?