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Old Mar 11, 2002 | 5:08 pm
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good customers get treated better.

occasional customers get treated "normally."

What's unfair about that?

Arithmetic:

I fly 20 times per year X $5.00 = $100 in taxes paid.

Someone else flies twice 2 X $5.00 = $10.

I pay $100, they pay $10.

I am a very regular, good customer. They are not. I get treated "special."

I am not "equal" because I am flying more.

The fact that I pay the same per unit as the infrequent flyer has nothing to do with it.

In theory, I should pay $4.00 or $3.75 per security check, if life were really fair. But since I pay the same, I get a shorter line as "compensation" for my being a "good customer."

Okay?
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