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@ Falls Church:The people not paying are supporting by not pressuring their representatives to oppose it.

That is the lowest bar for 'support' I have ever seen.

Why should those people get all the monetary gains when the costs are shared by everyone?

They are! Their property values go up, so their property taxes go up.

@ AWITC:I note the US freight rail system has worked surprisingly well with relatively little public support, at least for the last few generations

If you ignore the externalize that the privatization of freight killed passenger rail. If that had not happened, the US would be filled with high-speed rail lines that the French, Japanese and Chinese would be jealous of. Everybody knows that the US can do anything faster and bigger if it sets its mind to it.

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