Not reblogging this to avoid dog piling on this person but…

What the fuck do you mean Amtrak has infinite funding, it has one of the smallest operating budgets of any passenger rail agency? And like Amtrak is the only passenger rail company purely because passenger rail isn’t financially viable to run without government funding that Amtrak doesn’t have, that’s why people complain that amtrak doesn’t turn a profit. Also Rail is a natural monopoly, the old rail companies weren’t competing against each other, they all had monopolies, that’s part of why they died, there was so much anti trust legislation to keep them from extorting their customers that when alternatives arrived they couldn’t compete. Also Amtrak does have competition, it’s called Planes and Private Automobiles!!