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Amtrak wants millions of federal dollars in order to create new Atlanta rail hub station (www.11alive.com)

submitted 5 months ago by Mystech to c/atlanta

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (4 children)

What ever happened to companies investing in their own services? If a company needs to ask for government handouts, they should be considered a public service and absorbed into the government.

Amtrak should NOT be a for profit company any more...

[–] AlternatePersonMan 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)

We subsidize many major corporations and/or their infrastructure. Airports, stadiums, agriculture, telecoms, oil, ... the list goes on.

I'm of the opinion that if anyone in the industry is making millions from it, they don't deserve subsidies.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

That's kinda where I was going with it .

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