Patrick Ruffini on Amtrak in National Review:
As a frequent rail customer who depends on Amtrak, I am outraged. And if I had a congressman or senator who would listen, I'd tell them to act in the best interests of Amtrak customers and taxpayers ? and shut the railroad down before writing it yet another blank check. Listen to any zealous Amtrak partisan, and they will tell you that the company, burdened by a lack of adequate federal support and careening towards bankruptcy, stands at Armageddon. That's a fitting place for it because, in its present form, Amtrak needs to perish.
It's time to end this decades long raid on American taxpayers. PRIVATIZATION.