On: Can you buy your own train?

[scythe]

>$3.67 per mile

Well there's your problem. Raise the price! You'd think a senior fellow at the Cato Institute of all places would have thought of that.

[henvic → scythe]

You can't expect that raising prices is going to cut it as Amtrak is very inefficient like many, if not most, state-owned companies [that even receive subsidies], though.