{"id":541,"date":"2016-07-09T19:43:00","date_gmt":"2016-07-09T19:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/2016\/07\/09\/3-experts-conservatives-say-point-to-subsidies-for-high-speed-rail-be-informed\/"},"modified":"2016-07-09T19:43:00","modified_gmt":"2016-07-09T19:43:00","slug":"3-experts-conservatives-say-point-to-subsidies-for-high-speed-rail-be-informed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/3-experts-conservatives-say-point-to-subsidies-for-high-speed-rail-be-informed\/","title":{"rendered":"3 Experts Conservatives Say Point to Subsidies for High Speed Rail. Be Informed."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A conservative writer points to 3 &#8220;experts&#8221; to support the argument that subsidies will be involved in Texas High Speed Rail:<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Expert:\u00a0<\/strong>Stanford University economics professor Alain Enthoven<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Subsidy angle: <\/strong>Eminent Domain is a subsidy<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Expert:\u00a0<\/strong>assistant director of transportation policy for the Reason Foundation, Baruch Feigenbaum<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Subsidy angle:<\/strong>\u00a0federal Railroad Rehabilitation and Improvement Financing (RRIF) loans\u00a0are subsidies<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Exert:\u00a0<\/strong>Gerard Llobet, associate professor of economics at Centro de Estudios Monetarios y Financieros (CEMFI) in Spain<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Subsidy angle:\u00a0<\/strong>\u00a0Only 3 high speed rails in the world are profitable: Tokoyo to Osaka, Paris to Lyon, &amp; Shanghai to Bejining. Building without subsidies is not probable.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.star-telegram.com\/opinion\/opn-columns-blogs\/other-voices\/article88543642.html\">Ft Worth Star Telegram | Crystal Wright |\u00a0Is rail company lying about building Texas bullet train without subsidies?<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A conservative writer points to 3 &#8220;experts&#8221; to support the argument that subsidies will be involved in Texas High Speed Rail:<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Expert:\u00a0<\/strong>Stanford University economics professor Alain Enthoven<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Subsidy angle: <\/strong>Eminent Domain is a subsidy<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Expert:\u00a0<\/strong>assistant director of transportation policy for the Reason Foundation, Baruch Feigenbaum<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Subsidy angle:<\/strong>\u00a0federal Railroad Rehabilitation and Improvement Financing (RRIF) loans\u00a0are subsidies<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Exert:\u00a0<\/strong>Gerard Llobet, associate&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36,3,8,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-541","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2017-issue","category-eminent-domain","category-funding","category-railways","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/541","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=541"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/541\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=541"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=541"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=541"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}