<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by the.fluffy.bunny:
I cannot fathom why the general public should bear any of this cost.</font>
The reason is that the non-flying public gets just as much protection from airport security as the flying public.
The WTC attack is costing over $100B by itself, and most of that money isn't coming from the people who were on the planes, nor is it coming from the airlines. Most (well really all) of that money is coming from the taxpayers who were on the ground at the time.
Then, on top of that cost, you have to look at the cost to the stock market and the economy, which again has affected more than just those who were flying at the time.
Everyone has an interst in airport security; hijackings cost lives of people on the ground and money for all taxpayers.
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