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     Captain Haddock wrote:
    The question which you have to ask is how we pay for railways.

    In the EU tickets are massively subsidised by the taxpayer.

    So would it be a good idea to raise general taxation so somebody on a modest income in Dover, who never uses the railways, subsidises an investment banker on mega-bucks commuting to London daily, or should users pay somewhere near the true cost of the services they use?


    Total railway subsidies by country
    Country Subsidy in billions of Euros Year
    Germany 17.0 2014
    France 13.2 2013
    Italy 7.6 2012
    Spain 5.1 2015
    United Kingdom 4.5 2015
    Switzerland 4.3 2012
    Belgium 2.8 2012
    Netherlands 2.5 2014
    Austria 2.3 2009
    Denmark 1.7 2008
    Sweden 1.6 2009
    Poland 1.4 2008
    Ireland 0.91 2008


    Eventually the taxpayer will have to heavily subsidise our railways if we continue to create the majority of new jobs in Central London and the majority of new homes in the home counties.

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