SOME of the cost numbers are in the federal budget. But there are other costs that dwarf that. The real costs also include people missing their flights, people

SOME of the cost numbers are in the federal budget. But there are other costs that dwarf that. The real costs also include people missing their flights, people wasting time unproductively at the airport because they had to leave two hours earlier, people wasting extra time on the freeway or needlessly dying on the freeway. Not to mention the "deadweight loss" from every time somebody is dissuaded from taking a trip at all that they would otherwise have taken due to the extra cost (in time AND money AND stress) of dealing with the idiot brigade.