Despite this your analysis is quite correct: Britain's regional railways are a huge burden on what would otherwise be a profitable industry.

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To top it off, analysis by the Illinois Policy Institute shows that Illinois has the 14th highest tax burden per capita in the entire nation.

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The article cited an analysis by a professor in Akita University that used generational accounting methodology to calculate the financial burden being placed on the next, unborn generation, of Japanese by current welfare system.

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