(Source: InForum editorial, March 18, 2015)
FARGO, N.D. — There is elegant logic in Minnesota Gov. Mark Dayton’s proposal to tax railroads to pay for railroad safety upgrades. After all, it is the ever-increasing number of oil trains passing through the state from North Dakota’s Bakken oilfields that is raising the risk factor in track-side communities. It seems eminently fair and sensible that the entity both causing and profiting from the heightened danger pay at least a portion of ameliorating the risk. To no one’s surprise, railroads don’t like the idea.
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