{"id":25658,"date":"2020-08-21T20:17:28","date_gmt":"2020-08-22T00:17:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=25658"},"modified":"2020-08-31T16:00:23","modified_gmt":"2020-08-31T20:00:23","slug":"image-of-the-day-deregulated-railroad-sector-surges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/25658\/image-of-the-day-deregulated-railroad-sector-surges\/","title":{"rendered":"Image of the Day:  Deregulated Railroad Sector Surges"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Amid the coronavirus pandemic, railroads have maintained supply chains while not requiring bailouts despite widespread uncertainty threatening other industries.\u00a0 That directly reflects the railroad industry\u2019s longstanding position of strength, due largely to deregulation via the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/opinion\/steve-forbes-our-deregulated-railroads-are-an-economic-miracle-lets-learn-from-them\">Staggers Rail Act of 1980<\/a>, which we cannot allow to be reversed:<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/mcusercontent.com\/7a39aa0198a14cc3a9be2f9e6\/images\/3f5ea3a5-b4b4-4251-9578-86adf25f972d.png\" alt=\"Deregulated Railroad Sector Surges\" width=\"491\" height=\"356\" \/> Deregulated Rail Sector Surges<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amid the coronavirus pandemic, railroads have maintained supply chains while not requiring bailouts despite widespread uncertainty threatening other industries.\u00a0 That directly reflects the railroad industry\u2019s longstanding position of strength, due largely to deregulation via the Staggers Rail Act of 1980, which we cannot allow to be reversed: &nbsp; &nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2003,5123,5124,5121,5122],"class_list":["post-25658","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-deregulation","tag-rail","tag-railroads","tag-staggers","tag-staggers-rail-act-of-1980"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25658","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25658"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25658\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25668,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25658\/revisions\/25668"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25658"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25658"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25658"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}