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Has there ever been a reasonable argument in favor of privatizing railroads? The disaster in the UK and US experience have, as far as I know, not a single counter-balancing success story.
by citizen k (sansracine yahoo.fr) on Tue Nov 22nd, 2005 at 10:39:06 AM EST
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Sweden is another case - less disastrous, but in my opinion not positive either. Japan is yet another - this on the other hand seems a borderline success, tough seen from afar; I hope tuasfait will find this thread and have comments on it.

Sometimes Switzerland is brought up as good example, but I argued in my older diary I linked to that it looks like that only superficially (those privates don't compete, most of them are majority public owned, and there was recently a consolidation process).

*Lunatic*, n.
One whose delusions are out of fashion.

by DoDo on Tue Nov 22nd, 2005 at 11:19:09 AM EST
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