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To: Brumar89 who wrote (572993)	6/23/2010 11:32:45 PM
From: tejek	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1576329

So you're really in favor of high speed rail to engineer our society and economy in a way most people don't want to go. There are not going to be a lot of choices. We have a trade imbalance Then tax imports of oil and open up more domestic lands for exploration / development. Why not tax gas? Command and control of economies guided by government planners doesn't work - 100+ years of history prove that. Look at NK, Cuba. You don't know the first thing about planning Interesting I've started an annual planning process at work recently. But more important, I know history and command and control doesn't work .... didn't work in the USSR, China, NK, Cuba, or anywhere. There have even been real world experiments with nations cut in two - one following a rigid command / control model, the other following a freer market model - E & W Germany, E & W Europe, N & S Korea, Communist China & Taiwan & Hong Kong & Singapore. The evidence is clear. There wasn't central planning in the USSR. It was an oligarchy......a corrupt one. There is some central planning in China and its a highly successful capitalist economy. Pick your flavor.