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Biden s $3.1 Billion Train Ticket to Nowhere – WSJ

By Thomas A. Smith

It didn t get a lot of attention, but last month the White House awarded $3.1 billion to the California High-Speed Rail project. This was supposed to be a bullet train connecting San Francisco and Los Angeles in less than three hours. Instead, its costs keep rising even as the state scales back the plan. Since 2008, when California voters authorized a $10 billion bond issue for the train, they ve been sold a bill of goods.

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Wendell Cox.

It would be a lot cheaper just to buy off every connected Dem a few million dollars just for being them. And, as the piece points out, Florida has finished their high speed rail, all privately financed. Meanwhile, it looks like Trump will be the GOP nominee.