“There Are Three Kinds of Lies: Lies, Damn Lies, and Statistics.”                    – Mark Twain
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“There Are Three Kinds of Lies: Lies, Damn Lies, and Statistics.” – Mark Twain

The people who fuss and fume because passenger rail in the U.S. is subsidized will acknowledge (if pressed) that all public transportation is subsidized. And they will also concede, albeit grudgingly, that the roughly $1.5 billion that Amtrak gets every year from the federal government is a tiny fraction of one percent of the annual…