There 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 recei

There 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.