Air security fee hike won't fly, lawmaker says

[brooklynite]

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -- A Bush administration bid to double air passenger security fees will not fly with Congress this year, a Republican lawmaker who is influential on security matters said Thursday.

Kentucky Rep. Harold Rogers, chairman of the homeland security appropriations subcommittee on transportation, told Transportation Security Administration chief Kip Hawley that the proposal amounts to a tax that Republicans cannot accept.

Rogers blasted White House budget planners and the Homeland Security Department for failing to offer alternatives to pay for passenger and bag screening operations.

Lawmakers soundly rejected a similar fee hike proposal last year.

http://www.cnn.com/2006/TRAVEL/02/17/congress.airlines.reut/index.html
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Don't you hate these tax and spend Republicans?

[rfkrfk]

1. US domestic-flight tax on jet fuel , four cents a gallon

not a typo, four cents a gallon, $0.04

tax on jet fuel for international flight,
zero, not a penny, zero --> $0.00

[brooklynite]

3. Maybe they're buying it at the Tax-Free store in the Departure lounge?

[shanti]

2. * is ramming it to us again

at double speed. :grr: