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Show Not So Complicated i Here is the principal railroad problem in a nutshell. The railroads are an absolutely absolut-ely essential industry and are our greatest employer and purchaser ' cf supplies. Yet we have allowed competing transport agencies, un- j regulated or half -regulated, and not paying proportionate taxes, to take away business that would otherwise have gone to the rails. In some instances, this competition competi-tion has been made possible by government subsidies. The issue is not so complicated: Are we to pass laws that will put all transport agencies under the same type of regulation, so that they may compete fairly, and equitably, or are we to allow the railroads to be ruined? |