Comments on the "Downeaster" train in Maine, NH, and Mass. The politicians will try any ploy they can to pilfer your money, and that of your neighbor. This segment of "Against the Grain" exposes the fallacies underlying government train systems, and looks at the misapprehensions that prompt even respected economists like Milton Friedman to view higher gas prises as a causitive factor behind inflation.

Gardner Goldsmith explains why this is not the case.