High Speed Rail

The time is now for High Speed Rail to come to Wisconsin and bring us into a new era of economic prosperity. High speed rail will bring thousands of much needed skilled jobs to Wisconsin as well as potentially billions of dollars of user benefits in the decades to come. Oh, and did we mention that it will help our environment too?

Support High Speed Rail for the Wisconsin of Tomorrow!

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[stetsonwalker]

@lenojames I have heard of it before but have found nothing factual...please enlighten me with something verifiable. By the way, the house i bought back then I rent out now, but in the property tax that I pay yearly is money to...yup Pierce County Transit.... and the renter cannot take the bus I have more than paid for!

[lenojames]

@stetsonwalker I'm pretty sure you heard of the GM Streetcar conspiracy, where public transit systems all over the US were bought up and dismantled by GM in order to sell more autos? What you describe fits right in to that pattern, and right during that timeframe. I can't say for sure, but it sounds like you got screwed out of a perfectly good bus system in order to force you to buy a car. Buses were taken away from you three decades ago, and so now you see driving as the only travel option.

[stetsonwalker]

@lenojames Nope, our county put all the private buses out of business in the 60s and started Pierce County Transit, supposed to pay for itself in 5 years then turn profit. It is a bigger millstone around the taxpayers neck than ever. And guess what? You still cannot leave the house I bought for $21,000 and walk to a bus stop! (well I guess you could but it might be easier to walk to your destination) We are from the government and we are here to help!

[lenojames]

@stetsonwalker The rising costs of real estate is another argument fro HSR. Just going by your experience, if we had built HSR in the 80's, it might have cost 1/10th of what it does today, and we'd still be reaping the benefits.

If we wait to do it later, there's no telling how much it will cost. But if we never do it, we will always be dependent on a finite resource, from a turbulent part of the world, for our energy.

[stetsonwalker]

Respond to this video... In 1985 I bought a 3 bedroom house for $21,500, it is now taxed (actually under taxed) at $235.000. And gas is what?

[stetsonwalker]

@lenojames Think about it this way, I remember around 1978, buying bread at the day old bakery for 12 loaves for a buck...how much does day old bread cost now?

[stetsonwalker]

it finally topped $1.00 in the 80s.

[stetsonwalker]

@lenojames Well really my beef is with both people that bring up crazy crap that does not work AND the politicians that buy into the crazy crap...if someone told a leader of a country that Jews were a problem that needed to be dealt with and the leader ordered adult size ovens I have a problem with both people...

[lenojames]

@stetsonwalker You must be referring to a time when the average price of gas was less than a dollar. How long ago was that? Back in the 80's? The 70's? Back during the energy crisis, the OPEC embargo, and the gasoline lines? If that's what you mean by "full of crap", then we better get started with HSR right now!

[lenojames]

@stetsonwalker Believe me, if I thought there was a way to do that, I'd be all in favor of it. But as individuals, we can't dictate specifically where our tax money goes. Our system doesn't allow us to say "I want all my taxes to go to defense, and none of it to go to NPR." So instead, we elect people we think will spend the money the way we want. If your representatives aren't spending the money the way you want, your beef is with them, not with other individual taxpayers.