I'm not really arguing in favor of anything. I'm just saying that with airlines only barely surviving, they would fight any attempt to make them take back a job that involves an increase of costs. I can't really say I'm in favor of taxpayers picking up the tab, either. But I think that is a likely consequence of following the plan of "giving it back to the airlines". After all, they are not without influential friends on the Hill. I just think these things have to be faced anytime a person says "get rid of TSA". I mean, sure, we can go back to just letting people go straight to the seats on a plane with zero screening. That would involve no cost at all. And I suppose if the airline chose the cheap way out, namely, trusting passengers to mean no harm, they'd be incurring a risk by avoiding a cost. Maybe there's some twisted way that accountants can sell that to management.

But that's a scenario I expect not to see. So I'm throwing up scenarios that are alternatives to the status quo that might happen and that would mean the end of the cursed TSO's. Though I can easily see laid-off TSO's showing right back up working for private security. But maybe with a changed set of rules.