Would you feel safe booking a business trip through San Francisco International Airport? What about taking your family to Disney World through Orlando Sanford International Airport? If you feel comfortable making travel plans through either of these airports, then you have already demonstrated you are comfortable with privatizing airport security. Both SFO and SFB are among the more than 20 airports in the United States that already use private security through something called the Transportation Security Administration‘s Screening Partnership Program.

When Congress hurriedly created the TSA weeks after 9/11, it did not do a detailed analysis of the costs or benefits of federalizing airport security. At the time, there were just over 16,000 private airport security employees nationwide. The TSA immediately hired over 40,000 airport security screeners, and that workforce has grown to 55,000 today at an annual cost of $12 billion.

If the TSA........

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