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It looks like the TSA finally caught on to how much Americans enjoy having their genitals fondled: the US Transportation and Security Administration wants to start charging airline passengers double on screening fees.
A proposal to double the security fee on flights originating in the United States has been given the go-ahead by the Democrat-controlled Senate and, pending full Congressional approval, could soon be coming to an airport near you. If the hike is authorized, the security fee tagged on to a round-trip airline ticket will double from $5 to $10.
“Air security is a national security function and it’s something that all of us need to be behind as Americans, and the government should be picking up the cost of that,” Airlines for America spokesman Sean Kennedy tells CNN. Supporters of the bill argue that, currently, the TSA’s $7.6 billion budget is largely footed by American taxpayers on a whole — including even those who are scared to set foot on an aircraft. Sen. Mary Landrieu (D-La.) has authored the amendment to the Homeland Security bill and estimates that doubling the security fee would bring in $315 million in funding that would be added to the agency’s budget from taxpayer dollars otherwise.
Another Republican member of Congress, Rep. Ron Paul, has had other ideas about the TSA. The congressman has been campaigning in hopes of becoming the GOP’s nomination for the presidency by vowing to abolish the TSA entirely if elected.
The TSA could always save a few cents by pawning the roughly 5,700 pieces of security equipment it has in storage that the House Oversight Committee estimates to be worth $184 million. Or, perhaps, they could consider scaling back the recently launched pilot program being tested in Houston, Texas that calls for TSA agents inspecting passengers on city busses.
She added that the airline industry is already being hit hard by a ravaged post-recession economy and that doubling fees would lessen the likelihood that some passengers would opt to fly.
Originally posted by 1825114
A while back there was a thread with pictures of airline receipts showing the "post-9/11 security fee"
I can't find it now and would really like to have those images because seeing 9/11 on a receipt like that really makes a point, especially now that they're doubling their fees.
Anyone got a link?
t looks like the TSA finally caught on to how much Americans enjoy having their genitals fondled: the US Transportation and Security Administration wants to start charging airline passengers double on screening fees
Originally posted by popsmayhem
Who would of ever thought
it would come to having to pay
some jerk off to molest you?
These TSA goons are going to far,
I only fly private and for good reasons.
I refuse to pay these morons to
grab my testicles.
Even if they made it equal and actually
groped middle eastern looking people
and not 70 year old ladies and nuns while the women
in a burqa walks right on through. Or the disabled 9 year old
boy who gets molested in a wheel chair while maqmuhamude
strolls right past security in fear of racailly profiling.
Originally posted by neo96
t looks like the TSA finally caught on to how much Americans enjoy having their genitals fondled: the US Transportation and Security Administration wants to start charging airline passengers double on screening fees
Yep gotta pay them union thugs more money double the fee for double the disgrace.
Originally posted by jude11
You have to pay for a prostitute to do the same thing
Man this is screwed up in so many ways.
Peace
Originally posted by Screwed
Am I wrong for thinking this is funny?
In some crazy assed bassakward kinda way, this all makes me smile.
It is like I am living in Bizzaro world.
It has gotten soooo bad that our country has become a parody of itself.
It is comical.
You couldn't make # like this up if you tried.
This summer is going to be EPIC.
The revolution is at our doorstep and not a moment to soon.
I can't believe I am alive to witness this historic and monumentous occasion.