Re: NASA - National Atmospheric and Space Administration

"hallerb@xxxxxxx" <hallerb@xxxxxxx> wrote:

beyond that all profit from space activities should be declared
federal tax free for 30 years to help investments.

way better than spending public money.

Umm... behind all the handwaving deployed on behalf of everything from
sports stadiums to mortgage interest deductibility, foregoing tax
revenues *is* precisely the same as spending public money. The
arithmetic doesn't care what you call it: look up "fungible" and
"double-entry."

I'm perfectly willing to consider the merits of arguments for Your
Favortite Subsidy X, but I'd much prefer a politics without the spin
of tax holidays, investment zones, "pump priming," etc.
.