A free-market “yes” to Texas high-speed rail
December 15th, 2018
December 14, 2018 - Tom Giovanetti, President, Institute for Policy Innovation - tribtalk.org -
With a limitless supply of wasteful government spending to target, including their own “Congressional Pig Book” outlining 232 federal earmarks totaling $14.7 billion dollars, my friends at Citizens Against Government Waste have better things to do than write an inaccurate and misleading slam against the privately funded Texas Central high-speed rail project.
Attacking a private venture project is straying from the path of an organization whose mission is “to eliminate waste, fraud, abuse, and mismanagement in government.” The Texas Central Rail project is not a government project.
Is Burlington Northern Santa Fe a government project? Kansas City Southern? Union Pacific? No, of course not. These are all private, for-profit rail corporations, and Texas Central would simply be joining that list. Rail is not inherently governmental, and it’s not inherently bad, either.
Read more: https://www.tribtalk.org/2018/12/14/a-free-market-yes-to-texas-high-speed-rail/
(editor's note - here is the original TribTalk article from Tom Schatz, President of Citizens Against Government Waste that is against high speed rail for Texas)
https://www.tribtalk.org/2018/11/26/hit-the-brakes-on-high-speed-rail-in-texas/
With a limitless supply of wasteful government spending to target, including their own “Congressional Pig Book” outlining 232 federal earmarks totaling $14.7 billion dollars, my friends at Citizens Against Government Waste have better things to do than write an inaccurate and misleading slam against the privately funded Texas Central high-speed rail project.
Attacking a private venture project is straying from the path of an organization whose mission is “to eliminate waste, fraud, abuse, and mismanagement in government.” The Texas Central Rail project is not a government project.
Is Burlington Northern Santa Fe a government project? Kansas City Southern? Union Pacific? No, of course not. These are all private, for-profit rail corporations, and Texas Central would simply be joining that list. Rail is not inherently governmental, and it’s not inherently bad, either.
Read more: https://www.tribtalk.org/2018/12/14/a-free-market-yes-to-texas-high-speed-rail/
(editor's note - here is the original TribTalk article from Tom Schatz, President of Citizens Against Government Waste that is against high speed rail for Texas)
https://www.tribtalk.org/2018/11/26/hit-the-brakes-on-high-speed-rail-in-texas/