We’re seeing “fairness” at it’s finest. Some of you have noticed the latest trend in airline travel is to charge for more and more things that used to be considered free. The day before yesterday, an airline announced they would begin charging for carry-on luggage. Today, an airline has announced they will install pay toilets.

Airlines were in trouble financially prior to the terrorist attacks in 2001. In the Post 9-11 world, things have only become worse for them. I suspect I am not the only person who has decided to avoid flying at all costs. What we are seeing is the effects of increasingly bizarre regulation.

The effects we are witnessing are not the intended effects, and the results will be even worse. People who can afford it who need to fly are chartering planes or have purchased their own planes. They avoid the hassles of airport security. With fewer wealthy people flying commercially, the burden of meeting expenses has to be spread among the remaining commercial fliers. Soon they will be priced out of the market for flying. I suspect we are witnessing the death of the commercial airline industry. Which means that pretty soon, we’ll have the people who can afford to fly the own planes, corporate and government fliers, and everyone else, who will not be able to afford to fly.

This is what I see as the manifestation the “fairness” some of the Democrats has been talking about will look like. The airline industries’ woes may not be traceable to today’s political climate, but it looks an awful lot like what I think we can expect more of in the near future. Health care has been shoved down our throats, and some people think it’s great, but I fear the actual implementation will be more like what we’re seeing in the airline industry.