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Originally Posted by urbanview
You are defending the current situation, the status quo. No private company is building hsr in America, it won’t work ever. It doesn’t work in France, Germany, Spain, China, etc, etc
This is A country where they spend billions of dollars every month on the military and millions on highways, but refuse to pony up for a rail tunnel into NYC that is falling apart. A country that is using antiquated railways and subpar urban transit, yet they have no problems buying missiles and bombs for billions. A country that clearly is biased against trains/transit overall and refuses to bring our trains up to speed with the rest of the civilized world. The government isn’t spending money on rail because the right pro oil machine considers transit commie and is biased against it.
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Texas Central is planning building HSR in Texas between Dallas and Houston, Virgin (Brightline) is planning building HSR mostly in California between Victorville and Las Vegas. Planning is not doing, so let us wait to see if any fruit comes from the seeds being sowed.
Not one city, county, or state government helps to fund America’s military. It all rests on the federal government to fund. So the percentage of the federal government budget looks higher than what it really is when you consider every government in America.
Let us take public education as just one example. The federal government spends just 8% of the total on public education, the other 92% comes from other lesser, local governments. On average, 47% from states and 45% local.
If public education was entirely funded by the federal government, assuming using the same taxes collected for public education by others, it would jump from $68 billion to $850 billion.
That’s about the same amount spent and possibly slightly more than spent on national defense.
Math = x/92 = 68/8; cross multiplying 8x=68x92; x = 68x92/8; x=782
782+68 = 850
Source of data = wiki
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unit...t_of_Education