China has 22,000 miles of high-speed rail and we’re still celebrating every 200 miles we can get.      High-speed rail is 8 times more energy efficient than airplanes and 4 times more efficient than cars. The challenges are great but we need to keep pushing for it. scientificamerican.com/artic…

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Building a low cost rail here is almost impossible. Our labor cost is way too high. Labor union is not easy to deal with in America.
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Given we are already broke and you want to greatly expand the welfare state. Where would all this money come from? Where is your balanced budget? You need a better economic advisor. cato.org/policy-analysis/hig…

The High-Speed Rail Money Sink: Why the United States Should Not Spend Trillions on Obsolete...

The United States does not need an expensive new infrastructure system that will take decades to build, carry relatively few passengers, and provide no improvements to freight service.

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You earned my vote a long time ago. Being better than Joe from Scranton is a low bar. DNC(Establishment) prefers Trump and will work to crush you. Keep fighting.
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China also has the advantage of no opposition parties/government controls everything too
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They’re burning coal to generate the electricity for high speed rail.
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Cool. When Can the taxpayers get back the $12 billion that California has wasted on failed high speed rail already ?
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Taiwan, Russia, Turkey, South Korea, soon Saudi Arabia, even tiny Luxembourg have more #HighSpeedRail than we do, but the US can’t sort it out! eesi.org/papers/view/fact-sh…
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That's why we need our @POTUS !! #BidenHarris2024
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unfortunately, what biden is proposing is not true high speed rail. its not fast nor efficient enough and it will be a massive tax suck to ultimately fail. we need massive maglev investment. i mean massive, committal widespread, freight and passenger rail.
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