Obama’s New Budget Targets Passengers – Includes $5.00 Per Bag Charge for TSA to Screen Our Luggage

Obama’s latest budget includes a $5.00 per bag charge for TSA to screen out luggage.
The Daily Mail reported:

The cost of travel will take off if President Obama’s budget is approved out of hand because he plans to add fees to passengers and take away existing grants to airports in an effort to reduce the deficit.

In his budget put forth Monday, the President mapped out a way to accrue $32billion for the government over the next decade.

The Obama administration wants major carriers, their passengers, business jets and airports to pick up more of the costs of air travel and airport improvements that for years have been borne by taxpayers.

New fees are sure to trigger strong opposition from airlines and other aviation groups who argue that the industry is already over-taxed and over-regulated.

Ideas quietly floated and then discarded during congressional budget negotiations last summer re-emerged in the fiscal 2013 transportation and homeland security portions of the White House budget sent to Congress that outlines $4trillion in deficit reduction.
Under the proposal, ticket fees that help pay for passenger and bag security screening at more than 400 U.S. airports would double to a mandatory minimum of $5 per one-way trip.

The fee would jump 50 cents per year beginning in 2014, raising the total to $7.50 in 2018.

Glenn Reynolds added this on the “grope hike.”

Glenn Reynolds, a University of Tennessee law professor and TSA critic who blogs at Instapundit.com, slammed the fee as good money after bad — the TSA has been widely criticized for incompetence and abusive searches.

“I’m not against user fees,” Reynolds said. “But this is not a user fee. This is a fee for being used. I don’t think the TSA does any good at all. Every dollar that goes to them is a waste. More dollars is more waste. I think the TSA should be abolished.”

Reynolds, a gun rights advocate, said that with a reported $32 billion total package of proposed airport fees and cuts, “for that kind of money, they could give every frequent flier a gun, which would do more to stop hijackings than the TSA clown show.”

Agreed.

#1 February 14, 2012 at 2:39 pm
Blacque Jacques Shellacque commented:

Note to fliers, frequent or otherwise: Didja vote for Obama? Yes? Well this is your result. Enjoy it.

(And to be sure, a big black mark to GWB for the creation of the DHS and TSA bureaucracies)
#2 February 14, 2012 at 2:45 pm
#1AMERICAN commented:

Somehow that money will end up in some fund somewhere to feed his mooslime pocket…crooked illegal Kenyan MF….nice Connecticut SS#…POS
#3 February 14, 2012 at 2:53 pm
WillofLa commented:

I to hate the TSA. They DO need to be abolished. And all it would take is to repeal the Dept. of Homeland Security and all it’s tenticles that are stuck in everybodies pants and touching everyone’s private parts. No one should have to suffer that kind of humiliation other than the people who are responsible for all the terrorist attacks around the world, including this Iranian who blew his legs off, and that is Muslims. You notice no Muslim woman flys. They won’t allow themselves to be touched by any person, man or woman, who is not a member of their immediate family. And even then the women don’t let anyone else touch them other than their women. You notice that few if not very many Muslim men fly. That’s because they’re not dumb like American’s, and they have more self respect for their own personal space than dumb American’s who won’t stop flying because American’s are so damn concerned about time. It’s the time they hold as more precious than the humiliation of being searched like the TSA searches people.

Why American’s won’t stop flying for at least a month, or a couple of weeks, or even a week to protest TSA, maybe we could send a message to the Democrats that we aren’t going to allow them to pass a law that gives the kind of power to DHS that they in turn gives to TSA to do what they do. It’s not a law or laws they follow, it’s DHS rules and requirements the TSA follows. All we have to do is force DHS to drop those rules DHS allows TSA to act on, and then it will stop. Then force them to reduce the rules even more, and more, and more until the TSA is nothing more than guards who stand out of the way and just watch people walk by.

And then liberals, who by the way hardly ever fly, would start screaming, “We’re unsafe, we’re unsafe!” Really? Did you know that inspections and tests have shown that the TSA doesn’t stop anything or anyone who is determined to get something through. Look at that woman a few days ago who got on board that jet and had a hand gun in her purse. She was going to use it to shoot her exhusband or something like that. The big bad TSA missed that altogether.

All this kind of crap needs to be repealed!!
#4 February 14, 2012 at 2:57 pm
bg commented:

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February 4, 2012

Senate Democrats Say They’re Not Going
To Pass A Budget In 2012 Either

[Congress hasn’t passed a budget since 2009, the first year
of President Obama’s presidency. The nation (despite Senate
Budget Committee Chairman Kent Conrad’s claims to the
contrary) hasn’t had a budget for over 1,000 days now.

And Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid is saying that
2012 won’t see a budget passed by Congress either.]

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#5 February 14, 2012 at 2:59 pm
Adirondack Patriot commented:

Failure is always funded.
#6 February 14, 2012 at 3:06 pm
Corky Boyd commented:

Earlier reports of this “fee” was that a third of it would not be use for airport security, essentially making it a tax. This is the administration’s way of bypassing Congress’s exclusive right to raise taxes. Already the govenrnment’s profit (through taxes and fees) on airlines and airline passengers exceeds what airlines earn. Most earn nothing, they are operating at a loss.

This is the nature of a parasitic government, which eventually ends up destroying its host.
#7 February 14, 2012 at 3:07 pm
Sam Stone commented:

So much for “I will not raise your taxes, not one dime, if you make under $200,000 a year.”
#8 February 14, 2012 at 3:13 pm
olm commented:

Abolish the TSA…………..and Obama.
Problem solved.
#9 February 14, 2012 at 3:14 pm
lonestar commented:

Does this mean if we don’t pay it, we don’t get our bags checked?
#11 February 14, 2012 at 3:31 pm
Sniffy commented:

WillofLa, you are hilarious. To suggest Muslims and liberals rarely ever fly is ludicrous. There are just as many dems flying as there are republicans. I personally fly every week and have never been exposed to anything even remotely humiliating while going through security. Sure, it’s annoying, but you have to admit that our airports and planes are safer than they were pre 9/11. That being said, $5 per bag is so stupid. So, so stupid.
#12 February 14, 2012 at 3:43 pm
dunce commented:

I think everyone should join me in my boycott all airlines until they put the effort on keeping terrorists out of our country in the first place, which is at points of entry and our borders. Heavy on the profiling.
#13 February 14, 2012 at 3:46 pm
Nancy commented:

I detest the TSA. I haven’t been through their nude scanner because I haven’t flown since they put the things in, but I was patted down in 2004 because my belt buckle caused their metal detector to beep. But the thing that solidified my feelings toward the TSA was when I went through the line on my first trip to Hawaii, on my second honeymoon.

I had a check for my daughter in my wallet. They went through my purse to check for bombs, and one of them took the check. I got it back months later, with a forged endorsement.

The TSA robbed me. And that was before they really got going with their creepy voyeurism.

Thanks, everyone, for voting Obama into office. And if he gets re-elected, this will be peanuts in comparison to what he’ll do to us then.
#14 February 14, 2012 at 3:57 pm
dwd commented:

$5 to be irradiated and/or groped.

Don’t worry though, because Obama says he’s not done yet–you should give him 4 more years. Just think what else he could dream up for us with more time!
#15 February 14, 2012 at 3:59 pm
retire05 commented:

#11, Sniffy, are our airports and planes REALLY safer than they were on 9/11/2001? Perhaps, but it has nothing to do with the TSA. Had cockpit doors been locked on 9/11/2001, as they are now, pilots would not have had their necks slit, and the hijackers would not have been able to take control of those four airplanes. And had ordinary citizens been armed, the hijackers would have received their 72 virgins without taking everyone else with them. There is a reason a gun store is never robbed.

By flying, you willingly agree to the suspension of your 4th Amendment rights. You allow yourself to be searched in such a way that would get a police officer suspended for searching someone not suspected of a crime. You allow the government to dictate to you what you have to do to engage in a private contract between you and a private transportation company. Your freedom of movement is thrwarted by the federal government, and you willingly give that freedom up to it.

Your chances of being killed in an auto accident on your way to the airport are ten times greater than you being blown out of the sky by a jihadist. Somehow I doubt you would be so willing to agree to having your right of freedom of movement violated if you were required to get the permission of a police officer every time you wanted to put the key in the ignition of your car for the purpose of travel. Yet, although fewer people died on 9/11/2001 than die in traffic fatalities every year, you believe the government when they tell you they are only abusing the Constitution to make you safer. Meanwhile, the chances of you being murdered by an illegal alien is greater than your chance of being blow out of the sky.

We, the U.S., are an open society. There is no way to protect you from harm during every minute of the day. And the only way to give you such protection is to totally destroy the U.S. Constitution and create rules similar to Nazi Germany or Stalin’s Russia.

Oh, and one other point: the last time I flew I was pulled out of line after the metal detector went off because I had pennies in my Cole-Haan loafers. Legal currency of the U.S. set off the metal detector, and the TSA agent was going to tear my shoes apart. I had to call for a supervisor because the gum-chewing, fat ass that was going to tear my shoes apart (although she had run them through the X-ray machine after I took the pennies out of them and NOTHING) didn’t realize that coins set the metal detector off. But as I am arging over the destruction of $200.00 worth of shoes, three Muslim women and one Muslim man were waved through the TSA station. Seems they have the right to claim “religious objection” to being put through what the rest of us are subjected to.

So, out of curiosity, what other freedoms are you willing to give up for a false sense of security?
#16 February 14, 2012 at 4:03 pm
Spider commented:

The pictures of grannies and nuns being groped is just so pathetic. How many crimes has this prevented?

If you want to prevent crimes you must profile. You must profile for criminals.
#18 February 14, 2012 at 4:06 pm
SeniorD commented:

Pretty soon, we’ll need ‘internal passports’ to travel between States (‘Commerce Clause’ donchanow).

Then again, why not set up stores in destination locations to rent clothes for the duration of the visit? Anything to annoy the TSA Sturmtruppen.
#20 February 14, 2012 at 4:59 pm
KR commented:

I’m surprised Obummer didn’t require the passengers in first class to pay this fee for the rest in coach.

“Just spreading the wealth around”. /
#21 February 14, 2012 at 5:43 pm
bg commented:

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GOP Caves on Payroll Tax

who didn’t know??

[yep, same old song & dance routine..

can’t believe some still fall for it, not to mention
the Reps rock, roll, and play dead act.. gah!!]

i’m afraid that anyone who doesn’t understand that the anti-hobbit Rep
elite are helping the Dems push US into the NWO by now is, well, sorry
to say, hopeless..

oh yeah.. we ain’t seen nothing’ yet..

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#22 February 14, 2012 at 5:55 pm
bg commented:

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re: #22 February 14, 2012 at 5:43 pm bg

February 14, 2012

Rush: Ignorance Surrounds Payroll Tax Cut Extension

[“I do not understand why somebody doesn’t characterize this payroll
tax cut for what it is — gutting Social Security because it is not being,
quote / unquote, paid for,” Limbaugh said. “The Republicans, for as long
as I’ve been alive, have been accused of gutting Social Security. Here’s
Obama doing it. Obama and the Democrats are actually doing it."]

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#23 February 14, 2012 at 5:57 pm
S. Wolf commented:

TSA should be the one to pay to grope people’s privates if they could find anyone who’d allow it.
#24 February 14, 2012 at 6:01 pm
S. Wolf commented:

Gary #21

In a pig’s eye. So you’ll vote for Obama, eh? Ah… about those conservative creds…
#25 February 14, 2012 at 6:40 pm
Not Likely commented:

“Includes $5.00 Per Bag Charge”

100% false. Are you sure you speak English Mr. Hoft? I recommend it.
#26 February 14, 2012 at 6:42 pm
Gimme a Break, I never crapped on a cop car commented:

Sweet. Hide new taxes as fees on airline tickets. That Obama sure has some clever ideas for screwing the American people out of our hard earned money.
#27 February 14, 2012 at 8:28 pm
Randy commented:

I guess this article just made up my mind for me. I am going to drive to Texas this year instead of flying. It may cost more, but oh well.
#29 February 15, 2012 at 1:58 am
YourMaster commented:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QGOOpUkJ0Ko

*l*
#30 February 15, 2012 at 7:26 am
Gary commented:

S Wolf
Good grief! You know me better than that.

That was posted by Molon Labe in response to the very post you referenced (i.e. conservative creds).

Go through every thread for the past couple of days and you’ll see an idiotic liberal post under my name.
Molon Labe ruined his own username by saying he would vote for Obama if Romney got the nomination, so now he’s trying to ruin my username.
Keep trying coward.

Everybody else, if you see a liberal post under my name, please reply to Molon Labe, or Molon Labe the Coward. Either one works.
#31 February 15, 2012 at 1:19 pm
Stuart commented:

Look at the bright side. The last time I had to pay somebody to grope me was in Viet Nam; and it cost me more than five dollars. (in 1969 dollars) Consider this a bargain.

Must I? OK. (sarc)