Originally Posted by
Eric Westby
The $85 is the cost of the background check and administering the program, not a bribe to the TSA official performing the scan.
I get that we have a lot of Libertarians here, and that hyperbole is par for the course in online debates, but let's have some perspective.
Whatever the reason for the $85, the end result is a payment of $85 that may allow a citizen to be treated decently by government agents. I don't care why the cost, just that there is, and there shouldn't be.
TSA - "Give me $85 and I might treat you and not infringe on your rights!"
Imagine a program instituted by the government requiring you to have a particular id card to vote, and that id card costs $85. The $85 isn't to allow you to vote, it is just for the administration of creating the id card that the government mandated. But in effect, if you don't pay the $85, you don't get to vote.
Neither is right nor acceptable.