Millions of Americans will deal with the hassles of air travel this week as they join their families for Thanksgiving.

Amtrak recently announced that it will begin operating nonstop service between New York and Washington in 2 hours and 35 minutes in September.

The nation’s heavily subsidized transit industry continued its descent into oblivion with a 2.9 percent decline in ridership in June 2019, compared with June 2018, according to the Federal Transit Administration’s most recent data.

The federal government spends $14 billion a year on subsidies for local rail and bus transit.

The United States is more socialistic than other advanced economies in numerous ways. Federal and state governments attempt to run businesses that have been privatized in other countries, such as electric utilities, airports, air traffic control, postal services, and passenger rail.

Rather than supporting land privatization, Republicans today are embracing the opposite.

A century-old public utility model is not the best way to address America’s two-tiered consumer financial system; competition and regulatory reform is.

Mail volumes are falling and the U.S. Postal Service is losing billions of dollars a year while accumulating large liabilities.

Transit ridership is plummeting almost everywhere, yet officials in many cities are still devising hugely expensive plans for transit projects.

Nationwide transit ridership in the first quarter of 2019 was 2.6 percent below the same quarter in 2018, according to data released by the Federal Transit Administration (FTA) last week.