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The German government is extracting usually around 1 billion € yearly out of the German railway company.

• isostatic 8y ago
  German rail subsidies in 2014 were 17b a year, so not sure where this "extracting" comes from.
  • nisa 8y ago
    as silly as it sounds it's true. Deutsche Bahn AG needs to get 850 million € a year back to the state. The rail tracks and local lines are heavy subsidized but there are different companies. They really made a mess with this attempt at privatization. It went so far that Deutsche Bahn AG destroyed their own (payed with public money in the 80ies) working and good rolling stock in an attempt to keep the market prices up? https://www.swr.de/forum/read.php?5,3880 https://www.swr.de/forum/read.php?5,3880
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    • isostatic 8y ago
      Funnily enough Germany is held as a paragon of virtue by the nationalisationists in the UK (who now number about 65% of the country)
      • Daishiman 8y ago
        Well all things considered it's way nicer to take the train in Germany than England.