The United States is on the socialist end of international postal structures.

There is an obvious way to implement urgently needed reform.

Amtrak was supposed to become self‐supporting after a transition period, but it has never earned a profit and it consumed more than $50 billion in federal subsidies from 1970 to 2020.

The U.S. Postal Service (USPS) is a major business enterprise operated by the federal government with 650,000 workers and $77 billion in revenues in 2021.

The importance of infrastructure investment to the U.S. economy is widely recognized.

At least 33 members of Congress have signed onto a resolution calling for transit parity, by which they mean that the federal government should spend as much money on transit as it spends on highways.

Urban transit is one of the most heavily subsidized industries in this country.

President Trump reignited a feud last week when he said the “Postal Service is a joke because they’re handing out packages for Amazon and other internet companies and every time they bring a package, they lose money on it.”

The economic crisis has highlighted reckless fiscal policies and a lack of foresight by our political leaders.

Recent articles in respected business journals report that Amtrak lost only $29.8 million in 2019 (out of $3.3 billion in total revenues) and that it expects to make a profit in 2020.