The Train - Trains are self funding.

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Capturing the economic value that trains create will make them self funding. Quotes from the film:

• "Passengers are made to pay twice"
• "governments tax their incomes, ticket prices are raised to cover the cost of the capital investment"
• "trains pay for themselves"
• "trains more than cover their costs"
• "governments can pay for railways without taxing their citizens"
• "investment in railways yields huge profits"
• "the problem is the way governments pay for the capital they invest in the tracks and rolling stock"
• "Payback is like winning the lottery"
• "The Jublee line raised productivity in the London economy"
• "[Jublilee Line] every one pound invested gave a payback of 4 pounds"
• "That is what railways do, make the economy more efficient"
• "Trains make the economy more efficient"
• "Who pocketed the fat profit? Not the shareholders, not the taxpayers, wages were not raised"
• "profits cascaded into the profits of the land owners"
• "This financial history teaches us that trains pay for themselves"
• "taxes destroy jobs"