September 28, 2011
Actually, USA Today didn’t put it in quite these terms, and readers of its piece on raising airport fees probably missed it, but that is the clear implication of one of the statements in the piece. The piece told readers that:
“The security fees that passengers pay now cover about 43% of its costs of providing security in the air.”
If this is accurate, then opponents of raising the fees believe that average taxpayers should subsidize the travel of frequent flyers and especially users of corporate jets, who pay very low fees.
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