[battlecry]

So they create a sorry situation, and if you want to avoid it, pay them a fee and they get to hire another bureaucracy. What is to prevent them from adding yet another onerous and dubious process and charging you to avoid it?

[Albion Wilde]

So they create a sorry situation, and if you want to avoid it, pay them a fee and they get to hire another bureaucracy.

Wasn't it papal indulgences that led to the protestant reformation in the late middle ages?

I guess this is just another form of JiffyPass, which costs turnpike users $1 per month and is worth it.

Agreed, we shouldn't have to pay the government to give us "absolution"; but it will give them some plausible deniability for singling out foreign-born muslim males between the ages of 12 and 30 who haven't passed the background check.

Until the ACLU and CAIR sue them again, that is.

[paul51]

So they create a sorry situation, and if you want to avoid it, pay them a fee and they get to hire another bureaucracy.

It's the american dream ticket. Create something and then find a way to force everyone to pay for their 'participation'. The legal community is the most successful so far but credit reporting agencies aren't far behind. The TSA is learning quickly