Air travel costs soar (again)

Laws seem to be sweeping the country away, don't they?

In most states, it's illegal for cancer patients to get a doctor's prescription for herbs that have been proven to have positive medical effects. In many places, it's illegal to light a firecracker even on the Fourth of July. It's illegal to walk across the Newport Southbank Bridge barefoot or bring a dog to Fountain Square. It's illegal to possess markers or paint at Bellevue Beach Park.

Everything illegal.

Unless you're a big corporation like an airline. Corporations have almost no regulations on them. In BushAmerica, laws are only for the little people, you see.

It's under this "regulation for thee, not for me" climate that airlines have now raised fares threefold.

For instance, American Airlines' July fares between Phoenix and Miami cost $238 last year. But now they've almost tripled to $660.

If that isn't a clarion call to reestablish some state or federal regulation over the airline industry, what is? It's perfectly clear you can't sit back and "let the market work." If the market worked, fares wouldn't have gone up so much!

Let's make a deal: If the government stops mortgaging individual rights in the name of the failed War on Drugs and the Idiot Act, I'll go a whole month without lamenting the laissez-faire attitude that governs Big Business. Offer expires Plop Day.

(Source: http://www.kypost.com/news/national/story.aspx?content_id=e7829bfb-1c96-4d25-b215-bf246d1b0be1)