For you people who said you don't want your taxes or ticket to include charges for "paper booties" for people going through the "take your shoes off" portion of the security check:

LET ME OPEN YOUR EYES.
Those HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS of passengers from all over the world who traverse through that security check gate and remove their shoes ON THAT CARPETING deposit every kind of germ known to man, and a few not yet identified pathogens.

Some of the cleanest looking, DIABETIC PASSENGERS (Of which the world's traveling public holds a significant percentage, OFTEN HAVE INFECTED, PUS FILLED AND WEEPING SORES ON THE BOTTOM OF THEIR FEET, AND MANY DO NOT EVEN KNOW THEY HAVE THOSE OPEN, PUS EXUDING SORES!!!! I know, diabetes is rampant in MY family and we have to cross check DAILY for new lesions because THEIR FEET ARE NUMB!! Several other diseases COULD put CONTAGIOUS TB OR OTHER GERMS from foot lesions on YOU also.

NOW DO YOU WANT TO WALK THROUGH A STICKY, PUS ENCRUSTED CARPET BAREFOOT OR PAY THE QUARTER TO COVER AND PROTECT YOUR FEET OR SOCKS????