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For one thing, a national high-speed rail system is a bit easier if your whole nation is smaller than Montana.

And, apparently only two high speed rail routes in the entire world actually turn a profit:

^"High-speed rail is good for society and it's good for the environment, but it’s not a profitable business," said Mr. Barron of the International Union of Railways. He reckons that only two routes in the world - between Tokyo and Osaka, and between Paris and Lyon, France - have broken even.^

Of course, to those whose minds operate on nobler planes, where questions of base economics are beneath them, this will mean nothing.

Besides, think of all the tax loot a politician can pass out to the unions and cronies.

If something is a great idea, and will make scads of money, it will attract private investors. Let them build it. We don't need another political monument sucking away money we don't have.

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