any TSA advice?

[Bob Orts]

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Originally posted by Bullwinkle

the budget interesting - 4% goes to checkpoint funds.....

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The Fund is not the total cost for checkpoint security. That Fund is established to receive the TSA Security Fees and allocate as required by law. But post 9-1-1 the administration didn't want a pay-as-you-use system and opted for a socialized TSA security where all taxpayers (even those who don't fly) will pay for TSA security. Since they didn’t want to scare away business travelers, the fee was capped by amount, segment, and total fund amount. That's why the fund was established to show how much was collected and supposedly stop the fees when they reach the maximum amount that should be collected.

But it doe not represent expenditures for actual security checkpoints, only the fees collected from tickets for security checkpoints.