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by radicalcentrist 996 days ago
Calling it a jobs program is overly generous. It's broken windows fallacy. Considering the ineffectiveness of the TSA as shown by multiple audits, opportunity cost of waiting in security lines, lost revenue to airlines, and increased road fatalities due to flight aversion, it's a massive net loss to the economy for no actual benefit to safety.
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Extremely relevant, albeit somewhat dated by now: https://www.brown.edu/Departments/Economics/Faculty/Glenn_Lo...

I don't know why nobody has maintained this line of inquiry in the nearly 20 years since this was published.