TSA is lying about increased terror threat to justify new security fee hike

TSA is lying about increased terror threat to justify new security fee hike ( us.wsj.com )

submitted 2014-07-04T00:45 by keepcalmson

11 comments

zzzorro 2014-07-06T19:33

TSA and NSA are straight up garbage utilizing American tax payer's money for nada

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uiwchuasjdncayegqksd 2014-07-04T04:24

This is frustrating, but not as bad as it could have been.

While the tax increase is happening, most (more than half) of the additional money raised will not be going to fund TSA. Sort of a shame since they really could use that additional 220 million /s.

Even the airline companies would rather pay for this themselves as opposed to passing the cost to consumers who are already growing wearing of being nickel and dimed to death, in additional being increasingly violated just to get past security. What's going to be the straw that breaks this camel's back?

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Empire_of_the_mind 2014-07-04T05:03

a decline in airline travel. fortunately they lobby very hard to prevent modern rail, aka the primary competition for airlines in the rest of the developed world. any flight that lasts less than 2 hours can be replaced by trains.

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keepcalmson 2014-07-04T21:05

The TSA is ahead of you and has expanded to being at trains.

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Fnordpocalypse 2014-07-04T01:56

Most important part right here.

"On the whole, passengers pay about 43% of the $5 billion annual cost of TSA aviation security, according to the agency"

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Empire_of_the_mind 2014-07-04T03:22

You know, if you asked the general public if they could choose between the occasional blown up airplane and $20 cheaper plane tickets I'm fairly certain they'd choose to save twenty bucks.