When did greed stop being a bad thing? These people are worth billions - how much do you really need 1,2,3,4 billion? In a galaxy far far away the income tax was introduced solely because there were people that were super duper rich in comparison to the middle class and it was thought they could afford to pay a higher share. Besides the greed microsoft and other tech companies complain (rightly so) about the state of education in this country. So they want better educated potential employees but don't want to pay for it - welcome to now - we'll lower taxes, cut the deficit, improve your education. It appears that those who run technology don't only believe technology can solve our problems but magic can work too?

While this might be a good idea on paper, I would say that its not going to happen. We have a lot of problems in this country that we have successfully ignored for a while and huge investments in the infrastructure might help us short term in terms of dealing with depression and long term for the future. Instead of rails we should really be focusing on green technology and energy and hopefully we can then lead the world in something new again. Rail has a lot of problems - but the main 2 are NIMByism and special interests in general. Here in Los Angeles they fought subways and put in rail lines in locations that on the surface don't make sense but if you put them in more trafficed areas it would have meant tearing down some rich peoples houses or disrupting a stores business for 18 months. Now in the long run that store might be doing more business and people would spent less wasted time sitting in traffic but short sighted NIMBism is a powerful force to be reckoned with and should not be underestimated.