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Because it costs $85 every 5 years? Where does that money go? I don't know, but I bet whomever gets it is politically connected.

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Well, either it's intentionally lining someone's pockets, or the TSA are so badly administrated that they're leaking/losing money somewhere. Given the history of administrative errors, I'd be more likely to wager that it is the latter case.