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Terrorism as a Tax
- sealedidentity 18y agoThat's a very good viewpoint. Kudos to the author and poster.
- raghus 18y ago"More respondents were worried about U.S. immigration officials (70 percent) than about crime or terrorism (54 percent) when considering a trip to the country." Agreed, the US seems to be an exceptionally safe country - especially if you happen to come from countries outside of N/W Europe. And I think the average US immigration official would also be considered substantially friendlier than the average consular officer in those countries.
- technoguyrob 18y agoThere are eleven million commercial flights each year. [1] Each one gets taxed $5 after 9/11 for "extra security measures" (just look on your plane ticket receipt). That's already $66 million each year for pointless security considerations that any Redditor or Digger will reasonable explain to you are useless. [1] http://www.answerbag.com/q_view/34532 http://www.answerbag.com/q_view/34532 By the way, it would be nice to avoid politics on HN.
- Herring 18y agoDid he forget the cost of the war? At $1-2 trillion estimated total, it dwarfs everything he mentioned.
- brlewis 18y agoHe only included measures that at least give some appearance of increasing security.
- maxklein 18y agoThe best thing to do after Sept. 11th would have been to mourn, then smile and pretend it never happened. A lot less would have been lost.
- dant 18y agoIt's quite interesting but seems to lack any actual conclusion. Security costs money, so what?