{"id":28571,"date":"2015-04-10T09:08:04","date_gmt":"2015-04-10T08:08:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=28571"},"modified":"2015-04-10T09:08:04","modified_gmt":"2015-04-10T08:08:04","slug":"there-is-an-answer-to-the-problem-of-train-fares-it-is-called-nationalisation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2015\/04\/10\/there-is-an-answer-to-the-problem-of-train-fares-it-is-called-nationalisation\/","title":{"rendered":"There is an answer to the problem of train fares &#8211; it is called nationalisation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Tories want to regulate rail fares.<\/p>\n<p>Almost all rail companies are already state subsidised.<\/p>\n<p>Rail rolling stock leasing is a tax arrangement for the finance industry.<\/p>\n<p>The farce of rail privatisation continues when the state run East Coast route proved that state ownership works best.<\/p>\n<p>And yet only the Greens are stating the obvious, which is that the answer to these state interventions in an industry that should never be in private hands is nationalisation.<\/p>\n<p>I really think the time for rail nationalisation has come.<\/p>\n<p>And that Labour should be saying so.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Tories want to regulate rail fares. Almost all rail companies are already state subsidised. Rail rolling stock leasing is a tax arrangement for the<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2015\/04\/10\/there-is-an-answer-to-the-problem-of-train-fares-it-is-called-nationalisation\/\"><em> Read the full article&#8230;<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28571","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28571","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28571"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28571\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28571"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28571"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28571"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}