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title: ""An estimated 99 percent of Americans don't use the Northeast…"
date: 2019-02-25
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# "An estimated 99 percent of Americans don't use the Northeast…

*February 25, 2019 · Facebook*

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[https://www.usnews.com/opinion/articles/2016-10-04/amtrak-is-taxpayer-funded-trains-for-the-1-percent?fbclid=IwAR2jxYviL3uqcKVbtu8zNn7DDUot-J8BX-JZ_oNsqAc1PIpCBHeKuU0O8eg](https://www.usnews.com/opinion/articles/2016-10-04/amtrak-is-taxpayer-funded-trains-for-the-1-percent?fbclid=IwAR2jxYviL3uqcKVbtu8zNn7DDUot-J8BX-JZ_oNsqAc1PIpCBHeKuU0O8eg){target="_blank"}
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\"An estimated 99 percent of Americans don\'t use the Northeast corridor at all. Those who do, as Amtrak boasts, are \"highly educated, affluent and influential\": 92 percent have college degrees and their average household income is well above the national median, clocking in at \$170,000 a year. Yet, taxpayers are still on the hook for subsidizing \$60 of each Amtrak ticket to fund the travel of the wealthy and well-connected.\"\
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[https://www.usnews.com/opinion/articles/2016-10-04/amtrak-is-taxpayer-funded-trains-for-the-1-percent](https://www.usnews.com/opinion/articles/2016-10-04/amtrak-is-taxpayer-funded-trains-for-the-1-percent){target="_blank"}
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