Not stupid, just corrupt :)
If we did this, the money would get misappropriated or stolen - most likely completely legally through overpaid consulting fees.
So clearly we should pay someone to prevent that from happening.
Wait a minute...
Which would just flow into the pockets of ClownStrike or some big consultancy and nothing would actually change.
What is the lost productivity for having so many people waiting on airports?
But that is consumer protection regulation and it is not going to happen in America in a few years
https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/us-drops-biden-plan...
Why do you think we add iodine to salt?
You can't really add a bunch of fluorine ions to water because they'd all be negatively charged. We say we're adding "fluoride", but really we're adding ionic compounds that include fluoride.
This seems analogous to the difference between chlorinated water (toxic) and salt water (not at all toxic). It's always interesting to me that adding chlorine to water makes it poisonous, and adding sodium causes it to explode, but adding sodium chloride does... nothing in particular.