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?
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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uiwchuasjdncayegqksd ago
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?
Empire_of_the_mind ago
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.
keepcalmson ago
The TSA is ahead of you and has expanded to being at trains.