http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/us_tsa_baggage_fees
What the what??
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/us_tsa_baggage_fees
What the what??
"One day, we shall die. All the other days, we shall live."
Yeah, I'd like to know why all taxpayers are paying for anything the TSA does with respect to air travel. And why we all pay for air traffic control. Why do we all subsidize something only a minority uses? All these costs should be born by the people using the service. I feel the same way about the highway system, tax fuel enough to cover the costs. All the people here complaining about high income taxes should take note and work toward ending subsidies such as these and let the markets take care of the industries involved. You bunch of damned corporate socialists. /end rant
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If hindsight is 20-20, why is it so often ignored?
I don't see how this adds to the TSA budget. If the security screeners are checking 100+ bags or zero they get paid the same wage for the same length of shift. Now if the TSA is claiming the need to hire more screeners, that becomes a budget issue that must, I believe, be approved first. Am I missing something?
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Is civilian air travel really as important to a nation's interests as public education and feeding the unemployed?
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Last night as I lay in bed, looking up at the stars, I thought, “Where the hell is my ceiling?"
In the future, the Berlin wall will be a mile high, and made of steel. You too will be made to crawl, to lick children's blood from jackboots. There will be no creativity, only productivity. Instead of love there will be fear and distrust, instead of surrender there will be submission. Contact will be replaced with isolation, and joy with shame. Hope will cease to exist as a concept. The Earth will be covered with steel and concrete. There will be an electronic policeman in every head. Your children will be born in chains, live only to serve, and die in anguish and ignorance.
The universe we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil, no good, nothing but blind, pitiless indifference.
So....it costs 250 mil, but the surcharge would bring in 600 mil....
Yeah...okay.
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Can we please just throw out the tsa as a solution? The employees suck, the machines don't work. It's a bottomless expense of security theater.
"In a field where an overlooked bug could cost millions, you want people who will speak their minds, even if they’re sometimes obnoxious about it."
Ignoring for a moment that airport screeners just won the right to collectively bargain, this is some really piss-poor logic.
Carry-on limits haven't increased, so the screeners are still screening what they have been supposed to be able to screen so long.
Though I do like the airports making separate lines for frequent, regular and special-needs passengers.
The President can fire them if he wants.
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If hindsight is 20-20, why is it so often ignored?
That is a bit of a political can of Blowback in your Face. I'm not sure today's/future Presidents would dare do it.
Granted Regan did it with the Air Traffic Controllers.
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I have no figures to give you. I'm completely ignorant on rail, I know we spend basically nothing checking road traffic *no screening security whatsoever there* and it's constantly brought up that whatever it is we're spending on our screening in nautical transportation, it is completely inadequate. Something like 2% is actually checked. Of course, as was brought up in another thread a few months ago, all the recent terrorism within the US has been through the aeronautical network.
I believe I already pointed out how the national transportation network can be framed in social program terms. Seeing as the economy is so massively interconnected.
Last night as I lay in bed, looking up at the stars, I thought, “Where the hell is my ceiling?"
Not entirely true; for some people the difference between check in and carry on is something liquid or a gel they won't let you have in carry on.
I am pretty certain that what makes the difference for me is also the difference for other people who travel by plane more than one, two times a year.
As far as I know I am already paying for security at Schiphol airport through a special tax for that purpose. Then I pay some extra for not having to wait in line with people who don't know the routine. I have learned to go Zen at other airports when I do have to wait in line with vacation goers, but still, it does make me wonder. These people are in line for a security check that is being announce with big signs in several languages and icons for others and complete morons. Still, they manage to pull up all the way to the front of the line utterly oblivious to what they are supposed to do there.
Also, I have decided to assume that my iPod is a laptop, because nobody seems to know whether it is or isn't. So now my small iPod stays in the bag and its bigger brother has to get out.
Congratulations America
What I was saying is that the amount of luggage allowed as a carry-on hasn't increased, so in theory the TSA is just admitting that it's not prepared for the theoretical amount people have always been able to bring on board.
But you did remind me that Americans have already had a September 11 Security Fee tacked-on to every ticket (up to $5 per itinerary): http://www.tsa.gov/research/fees/passenger_fee.shtm
We have a little under one billion flyers in the US each year.
In the future, the Berlin wall will be a mile high, and made of steel. You too will be made to crawl, to lick children's blood from jackboots. There will be no creativity, only productivity. Instead of love there will be fear and distrust, instead of surrender there will be submission. Contact will be replaced with isolation, and joy with shame. Hope will cease to exist as a concept. The Earth will be covered with steel and concrete. There will be an electronic policeman in every head. Your children will be born in chains, live only to serve, and die in anguish and ignorance.
The universe we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil, no good, nothing but blind, pitiless indifference.