Bernie Sanders promises to “take trucks off the road” if elected

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Bernie Sanders promises to “take trucks off the road” if elected

How are the products going to get from the rail yard to the store? :confused:

video at link

During a recent campaign event, presidential candidate Bernie Sanders shed some light on his plans for the trucking industry.

In the short clip, which can seen above, Sanders promised to “do great things” if elected president, including “creating a state of the art rail system which takes trucks off the road.”

The crowd at the event responded with thunderous applause.

Several drivers immediately contacted us, expressing concern over the statements. “This guy has to be stopped” said one reader.
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http://www.livetrucking.com/bernie-sander-says-hell-take-semis-off-the-road-if-elected/
 
In spite of this patently insane suggestion, it would be a stretch to call Bernie Sanders a complete retard. The people applauding are another story altogether.
 
A fucking rail system.

Screw it, just skip the rails and go for those sunction hamster tubes from Futurama.
 
Bernie has correctly determined that the Teamsters are behind Trump. He had no hope with them. I really wonder how much of the Unions' rank and file will pull the lever for Trump.
 
Suzanimal said:
How are the products going to get from the rail yard to the store? :confused:

video at link


http://www.livetrucking.com/bernie-sander-says-hell-take-semis-off-the-road-if-elected/
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Well, not that I trust Bernie's way of doing things, but actually people don't usually know that the trucking industry is subsidized by all of us via the fuel tax. If they actually had to pay a percentage based on the amount of damage they do to the roads, they would not be profitable, at least not the OTR drivers, which would then make trains more necessary. So, to some extent Bernie is right for the wrong reasons.
 
He will hire millions of government employees to carry this shit at 40 bucks an hour and he can tax them at 90% and make so much money he can pay for everyone's college education. Then after they graduate they will be unemployed but get to live tax free for all eternity in free housing using free internet and free phones and free healthcare and free food from the magic trees that berine is planting.
 
What is it with socialists and railroads?! There's always seemed to be this love affair with them.

Is it because trains can only go forward and backwards? Because they have strict controls? They can only go where the rails allow them to go?

I'm not sure what it is, but there is something about the symbolism of the rails that is overwhelmingly endearing to these people. Is it because rail transportation was first introduced as "progress"?

An interesting thought on the subject from perspective of HDT: http://anthologyoi.com/literature-thoreaus-consideration-of-the-railroad-is-a-blessing-a-curse-and-a-symbol/
 
CaptUSA said:
What is it with socialists and railroads?!
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high-speed rail promotes economic growth by improving market access, boosting productivity of knowledge workers, expanding labor markets, and attracting visitor spending. When planned thoughtfully with complementary investments in the public realm, high-speed rail can promote urban regeneration and attract commercial development, as shown in several European examples. High-speed rail has greater operating energy efficiency than competing modes and takes up less land than highways.
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http://www.lincolninst.edu/pubs/1948_High-Speed-Rail

Numerous benefits with train systems


Faster, more efficient mobility, enormous energy savings, reduced environmental damage - a train system solves many problems:
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  • Creates millions of green jobs nationwide building the new rail infrastructure and manufacturing the rail cars
  • Pays for itself by significantly reducing our $700 billion a year oil purchase trade deficit
  • Offers a convenient, comfortable way to travel without hassles or delays
  • Congestion Relief - delivers new mobility while relieving congestion on highways and runways
  • A major step toward solving climate change by reducing our oil consumption and emissions
  • Drastically reduces our oil addiction and lowers our risk from the coming peak oil crisis
  • Lowers our dependence on costly military operations securing oil flow around the world
  • Lowers our national security risk, and ends wars for oil
  • Freedom from oil - Powered by clean electricity from renewable energy sources: wind, solar, geothermal, ocean/tidal
  • Safe, affordable, green transportation for everyone
  • Saves lives (43,000 Americans die each year in car accidents)
  • Provides efficient mobility that moves people and goods without delay and waste
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http://www.ushsr.com/benefits.html
 
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Playing devil's advocate, I don't think he meant take all trucks off the road, just reduce the number. The way it was stated could mean both taking all the trucks off the road, or taking at least 2 trucks off the road.

It's also questionable whether government funding of roads took away from investment in a more efficient rail system, but there is really no way to know since there was government intervention in transportation pretty much from the beginning.
 
hankrichter12 said:
Well, not that I trust Bernie's way of doing things, but actually people don't usually know that the trucking industry is subsidized by all of us via the fuel tax. If they actually had to pay a percentage based on the amount of damage they do to the roads, they would not be profitable, at least not the OTR drivers, which would then make trains more necessary. So, to some extent Bernie is right for the wrong reasons.
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I never knew that, I looked it up and they claim trucking is subsidize to the tune of ~ $60 billion a year.
 
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