For you people that would rather drive than deal with TSA, sorry, GAME OVER, as the states start charging you another 20 cents per mile, or more, to drive on THEIR ROADS.
Get used to flying again - it will soon be MUCH CHEAPER.
Get used to flying again - it will soon be MUCH CHEAPER.”””
1. This will killl the hunting /fishing industry, along with many other tourist destinations. No one will be entering National Parks, etc.
2. I cannot fly my horses.
All sorts of taxes involved in flying too. Taxes are piled on top of airline tickets to “pay for” all those airports—there has never been a private self-funded airport that commercial air passengers used in this country that I know of; the government has always had their grubby hands in that racket via the Airport and Airways Trust Fund (and predecessors).
The federal government used to charge a 10¢ tax on passenger rail tickets until they rescinded it some time in the 1960s. (79¢ in 2014 dollars, when adjusted from 1961.) None of that revenue ever went to “pay for” the railroad infrastructure—it all got dumped into the general fund.