Especially when you’re Joe Biden, and you get to ride it every night on the taxpayers’ dime. (And at a normal ticket price of at least $125 per trip on the Acela Express from DC to Wilmington, that’s a lot of dimes). Not to mention having your son the lobbyist on its board.
Dan Riehl’s post on Biden’s love of the rails includes this Wikiquote:
Government aid to Amtrak was controversial from the beginning. The formation of Amtrak in 1971 was criticized as a bailout serving corporate rail interests and union railroaders, not the traveling public. Critics assert that Amtrak has proven incapable of operating as a business and that it does not provide valuable transportation services meriting public support,[50] a “mobile money-burning machine.”[51] They argue that subsidies should be ended, national rail service terminated, and the Northeast Corridor turned over to private interests.
Gosh, now there’s a thought.
(More on Biden’s lobbyist son, whom the Washington Post notes is accused, along with Biden’s brother, “in two lawsuits of defrauding a former business partner and an investor of millions of dollars in a hedge fund deal that went sour,” from Gateway Pundit.)
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