The Rand Corporation published a report last week that makes the same point Dr. Tim Kern did for the Mises Institute, and only six years ago, too: the TSA costs us far more than its obvious price-tag of roughly $8 billion annually. But because The Rand Corp has spoken, the corporate media listened this time. And is duly publicizing Prof. Kern’s insight. Chief among the TSA’s enormous extra expenses are “state and local police placed at airports, the amount of time spent by travelers to pass through long security lines, and the economic impact of new counterterrorism mandates placed on private … Continue reading The Blind Leading the Blind