the weather service? ... FSS?
Pork.

So? That doesn't invalidate my premise. In fact, it supports it.

AMTRAK (let's not even go there!).
If you haven't "gone there", you should. Some of the most pleasurable
vacations...

So? Whether you (or anybody) enjoys AMTRAK doesn't change the fact that
it is a case of public dollars going to a private enterprise.

Oh? What is "the difference" that needs to be made up in the case of
properly administered tax breaks? Usually, there is an *increase* in the
actual money in the coffers due to the taxes of those employed by such
companies.

.... and an increase in demand for public services due to those same
employees. And "properly administered" is a pretty big loophole.

Privately owned trains are for-profit businesses, not a public service.
Certainly, the line isn't that fuzzy to you?

But if they serve the public good, they are (by your definition) a
proper role of government too. The public good can be served both by
private business and by government business and by many flavors in
between. A legitimate argument can be made that =no= enterprise that
can be adequately served by private business should be the the role of
government. FSVO "adequately". And that's the rub.

The reality is that it would sort itself out in short order, given the
mortgages that must still be paid. Most farmers aren't stupid people.

Maybe half of them will go out of business and the farmland will be
turned into airports and condos. The other half will survive.

It's likely that the ability to transport apples
globally reduced the profitability

It's more likely that wine is just more profitable.

[deducting aviation as a tutoring expense...] You'd likely wind
up sucking the government teat from behind bars, because
travel expenses don't work that way. ;-)

"Reasonable and necessary". This is subject to interpretation. A
business owner does not have to pick the cheapest or most efficient mode
of transport. It just can't be "extravagant". I would argue that using
an airplane to visit my far flung clients of education is similar to
using an airplane to visit my far flung clients in sales. Free flying.
Why not?

Jose
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