by coco60
There was a article in a Tampa newspaper about CSX wanting the goverment to pay for track improvements and make new track lines while they abandon track lines in the past to keep freight prices high.
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Tampa newspaper article on CSX
- Discussion of the operations of CSX Transportation, from 1980 to the present. Official site can be found here: CSXT.COM.
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by SimTrains
Why wouldn't they want to keep freight prices high?? There a corporation, not a charity.
by coco60
True,but then we pay for it in the long run.A side from that,should goverment pay (our taxes) railroads for new track?
by conrail_engineer
No...not for a private business. We could argue whether the government should keep ownership of lines it deems necessary...but that's a whole 'nuther line of discussion
In my perfect world, a business should pay its own costs, or be allowed to fail. That includes transportation...it's impractical to have trucking companies own their own roadways; but at the very least the taxes/use permits should reflect the cost of building/maintaining them. Airlines, too...the government is the only practical entity to oversee air traffic; but government management shouldn't mean government subsidy.
One can argue that the so-called "spillover" benefits justify public subsidies. Maybe...but what it leads to is where we're at now, with these endless cries of But they're getting all that government aid, so... And we wind up with the government being the banker without fee; the investor without return, and the only "customer" that need be pleased.
Which leads to ugly management, such as is at CSX and other businesses.
In my perfect world, a business should pay its own costs, or be allowed to fail. That includes transportation...it's impractical to have trucking companies own their own roadways; but at the very least the taxes/use permits should reflect the cost of building/maintaining them. Airlines, too...the government is the only practical entity to oversee air traffic; but government management shouldn't mean government subsidy.
One can argue that the so-called "spillover" benefits justify public subsidies. Maybe...but what it leads to is where we're at now, with these endless cries of But they're getting all that government aid, so... And we wind up with the government being the banker without fee; the investor without return, and the only "customer" that need be pleased.
Which leads to ugly management, such as is at CSX and other businesses.