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Poll: Californians Sour on High-speed Rail

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    Inflated costs, scandals hurt project

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California taxpayers showing some pretty serious buyer's remorse for high speed rail project William -- -- -- live in Los Angeles to explains a William why the change of heart.

Well you know -- Californians are having second thoughts but every taxpayer in the United States has a seat on the strained because they're paying for right now Uncle Sam would -- 80% of the price tag for the LA to San Francisco bullet train supporters say it's an investment America's future.

Critics say it's the last thing that Washington can afford.

Our goal is to give 80% of Americans access to high speed right yet less than a year after that speech the president bullet train project.

Looks more like a runaway engine.

It is not viable it is not the best use of tax dollars especially when you're borrowing the money to do it Republican Kevin McCarthy joins other fiscal conservatives hoping to.

Continue to build the train that will probably never be finished we need to move forward on this project because.

The costs of doing nothing are far greater California residents voted narrowly in 2008 issue nine billion in bonds to help pay for the project that promised.

To create thousands of jobs and reduce gridlock.

Today polls show -- majority consider the high speed rail proposal.

A boondoggle the reason that private equity is slow in coming is because congress is not taking action a dozen lawmakers called for a federal audit into potentially false claims including.

Figures that show more people writing California bullet trains -- all Americans now using Amtrak.

A price increase from 33 to 98 billion dollars travel times -- are longer and ticket prices higher than airplanes which could mean taxpayer subsidies costs have gone up.

Which is typical large infrastructure projects the numbers don't lie and every time you look at this more the worse it looks.

So the stimulus bill earmarked eight billion to jumpstart hard speed -- on the US originally -- had ten court orders around the US for that development.

Most of those have dropped out leaving California take all the money so the question now before congress does it kill this baby -- in the crib all war.

Does -- stand life support groveling for federal money.

Year after year -- Well in -- -- us thank you very much.

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