…the telephone tax is a very inefficient way to help poor people, says Thomas Hazlett, a professor at George Mason University, in a June white paper (senior.org/USFstudy). One Hawaiian phone company is getting an annual subsidy of $13,345 per line. It would be cheaper to give these people free satellite service.
Alaskans are getting rich off oil royalties but still qualify for an average $175 a year each in phone handouts. The citizens of Jackson Hole, Wyo. are winners, too, to the tune of $282 each. Does Harrison Ford really need your help?
That is from Bill Baldwin at Forbes.com.
Similar numbers for Amtrak. By some metrics the per-passenger-mile subsidy is so high that it would actually be cheaper for the government to buy them airfare instead.
Regarding Amtrak, does anyone else have the idea that the gov’t is purposefully allowing it to be run straight into the ground only in order to hasten its demise?
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