cost effective security

more air marshals have been arrested since 9/11 (for crimes like smuggling explosives, domestic violence, drunk driving and human trafficking) than the number of people arrested by the marshals. The $860 million spent on the service amounts to about 4.2 arrests per year, at a cost of $200 million per arrest.

-- from Boing Boing coverage of http://duncan.house.gov/2009/06/22062009.shtml

cost effective security

more air marshals have been arrested since 9/11 (for crimes like smuggling explosives, domestic violence, drunk driving and human trafficking) than the number of people arrested by the marshals. The $860 million spent on the service amounts to about 4.2 arrests per year, at a cost of $200 million per arrest.

-- from Boing Boing coverage of http://duncan.house.gov/2009/06/22062009.shtml

Considering the source

I keep reading articles about how the US public should really support blah blah blah that big corporations want, because it will lead to lower prices.

These articles are generally in Forbes or the Wall Street Journal.

They never suggest that people might want to shift tax burdens from individuals to corporations so that individuals can have more choice as to where to send their dollars, even though that sounds like the Free Market answer, and both these publications are ostensibly in favor of Free Market solutions.

Is the US going to end in a class war?

Considering the source

I keep reading articles about how the US public should really support blah blah blah that big corporations want, because it will lead to lower prices.

These articles are generally in Forbes or the Wall Street Journal.

They never suggest that people might want to shift tax burdens from individuals to corporations so that individuals can have more choice as to where to send their dollars, even though that sounds like the Free Market answer, and both these publications are ostensibly in favor of Free Market solutions.

Is the US going to end in a class war?