I don't see why local and state governments would need to raise general property tax rates just to offset losing railway property tax. Not only because that wouldn't be that big a percentage of their revenue, but because governments can choose how they collect revenue. Corporate, capital gains, payroll, levies/fees, and property taxes are all options that many use, not just property tax. If the railroads remained private companies operating on the now public infrastructure, jurisdictions could just apply a railroad operations fee or something in a level equivalent to what they were getting from property tax. Or if rail operations were fully public there's no reason the federal government couldn't share some of the operational profits with other levels of government.
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"The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man." - George Bernard Shaw
Don't ask people not to debate a topic. Just stop making debatable assertions. Problem solved.
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