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Because you can’t have America and France at the same time! You can’t have 300k salaries (you gotta cut it by 90% for taxes), small government, small regulatio
by aborsy 2y ago
Because you can’t have America and France at the same time!
You can’t have 300k salaries (you gotta cut it by 90% for taxes), small government, small regulations, limits on other public services that follow suit, low energy prices …
You can’t cherry pick. If you want fast trains from France, you need to become France.
At the end, public transport will be congested, captured by homeless, dirty, … There is no train from any A to any Z, you have take it from A, change to B, C, to Z. You will burn out in public transport, and drive a car. Not to mention US is a vast sparsely populated country, compared to EU that may have no choice but to rely on a mix of public and private transport.
- ezst 2y ago> Because you can’t have America and France at the same time! Why not? That could look something like Denmark, or the Netherlands ...
- n4r9 2y agoDenmark and the Netherlands have income tax rates and public services much more similar to France than to the US.
- ezst 2y agoIIRC they take it more kindly than the French to have their public services be run by corporations
- n4r9 2y agoYeah true, in France the SNCF [0] both maintains and operates the railways. In most other EU countries (and the UK) the railway infrastructure is maintained and developed by a state-owned organisation and operated by a mixture of state-owned and private operators. In fact there are quite strict EU rules about tendering out railway services, which is one of the few things I dislike about it. Note that France has had true high-speed rail (>200kph) since the 80s, and the newer lines allow speeds exceeding 320kph. Denmark does not have any rail exceeding 200kph. The Netherlands has had high-speed rail since 2009, though I'm not sure if it's used by private operators. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SNCF https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SNCF
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